Is there like an inductor finder for the sky130 pdk? In Xschem or somewhere ?
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Tim Edwards
08/09/2024, 2:25 PM
There are no characterized inductor devices in sky130. The best you can do is to estimate the inductance with a field solver like FastHenry.
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Koustubh
08/09/2024, 2:32 PM
@Tim Edwards is there a tool to help me determine capacitor sizes? I have used proprietary PDKs before where you could enter cap value and it would calculate size for you
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Tim Edwards
08/09/2024, 7:22 PM
I think xschem has the capability to set up Tcl expressions to handle that, although I don't know if Stefan Schippers has tried reverse calculations for devices sizes from values.
But magic does have that implemented; you can use magic to generate a MiM cap and then enter the value and it will compute the size for you (this only works with the "square capacitor" option selected---Otherwise it has no idea how to balance length and width).
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Tim Edwards
08/09/2024, 7:22 PM
It may be a bit awkward, but you can use magic to determine the device sizes and then plug the sizes into the schematic manually.
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Stefan Schippers
08/11/2024, 2:45 PM
@Koustubh@Tim Edwards xschem estimates capacitance from W and L dimensions. Currently it does not do the opposite (although this could be possible improvement for square caps). With 2/3 bisecting iterations you can set W and L that gives you the right capacitance. For MIM capacitors both area and perimeter components are considered for capacitance calculation.
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