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RWCap-v4: floating Random Walk based Capacitance solver for conductor structures. Version 4 released. [2023]

Contributors

Ming Yang, Mingye Song, Jiechen Huang.

Supervisor

Wenjian Yu.

Details

1. The package includes two programs: "rwcap-solver4" and "TechGFT2". They are for performing 3-D capacitance extraction, and preparing the GFT/WVT data for the rwcap-solver, respectively. Their paths are "rwcap-solver4/rwcap" and "TechGFT2/TechGFT", respectively.

2. The package also includes a lot of test cases in our publications. For the syntax of case file, please refer to the documents in RWCap-v2 website. Notice that term "qbem" is always exchangeable to term "cap3d".

3. For the usage of the programs, please carefully read the "readme.1st" file in the package.

4. The programs have been tested on 32-bit and 64-bit Redhat and Ubuntu Linux systems. TechGFT may be unstable on older systems. Please try to run them on newer system with Linux version 3, and glibc with version > 4.

Refered papers

1. Ming Yang, Wenjian Yu, Mingye Song, and Ning Xu, "Volume reduction and fast generation of the pre-characterization data for floating random walk based capacitance extraction," IEEE Trans. Comput.-Aided Design Integr. Circuits Syst., 41(5): 1467-1480, 2022. [pdf]

2. Ming Yang and Wenjian Yu, "Floating random walk capacitance solver tackling conformal dielectric with on-the-fly sampling on eight-octant transition cubes," IEEE Trans. Comput.-Aided Design Integr. Circuits Syst., 39(12): 4935-4943, 2020. [pdf]

3. Mingye Song*, Ming Yang*, and Wenjian Yu, "Floating random walk based capacitance solver for VLSI structures with non-stratified dielectrics," in Proc. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Grenoble, France, Mar. 2020, pp. 1133-1138. (*Equal contribution) (Best Paper Award Nomination). [pdf]