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< Tim Edwards> when I do parasitic extraction in `magic` I sometimes get lines like ```C542 VDD n519 0 0 02fF $ FLOATING``` Question Why is this happening in other words what does FLOATING mean Should I keep these entries or can I safely prune them from the netlist

Tim Edwards · Answer

Floating generally means that there is a capacitance that connects to a node that is not itself connected to any devices I m not sure if ext2spice is aware of the tree of nodes and might be adding that comments to nodes that are in the middle of the network and shouldn t be marked that way

Harald Pretl · Answer

It looks like it is a tree unawareness issue as the nodes of these caps are connected to other stuff

Mitch Bailey · Answer

Can you find the co ordinates of the device in the ext file divide by 200 to get um