spectrallypure
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Does anybody happen to know about a design kit for Cadence that includes 1.8V I/O pads with layout views, or lower?
I need these views in order to perform a detailed analysis of the pad parasitic loading and its coupling to the power lines, by means of post-layout simulations. I am developing a new transceiver for a parallel intra-chip communication bus, and I have realized that I need to take into account these effects with great detail, because they could easily render the whole communication scheme unusable.
The only process that we have access to that include these views are 0.35um or larger, with 3.3V I/Os. My scheme works fine with such large I/O voltage, but we need to asses its operation with much lower voltage pads (1.8V or even lower). We have access to various smaller TSMC and UMC processes (180nm to 90nm) with their corresponding standard cells (Faraday and ARM), but the I/Os provided by these companies DO NOT INCLUDE LAYOUT VIEWS, and after contacting them they have made it clear that they DO NOT provide those views; never, ever.
I have also taken a look to the NCSU and FreePDK free kits, but they only provide pad cells for 0.35um processes, wich are also 3.3V!
Any suggestions on how can I surmount this problem are welcome!
Regards,
Jorge.
P.S. Note: designing the pads myself is not an option: they have to be silicon-proven already (and it would also take me ages to acquire the required expertise!).
I need these views in order to perform a detailed analysis of the pad parasitic loading and its coupling to the power lines, by means of post-layout simulations. I am developing a new transceiver for a parallel intra-chip communication bus, and I have realized that I need to take into account these effects with great detail, because they could easily render the whole communication scheme unusable.
The only process that we have access to that include these views are 0.35um or larger, with 3.3V I/Os. My scheme works fine with such large I/O voltage, but we need to asses its operation with much lower voltage pads (1.8V or even lower). We have access to various smaller TSMC and UMC processes (180nm to 90nm) with their corresponding standard cells (Faraday and ARM), but the I/Os provided by these companies DO NOT INCLUDE LAYOUT VIEWS, and after contacting them they have made it clear that they DO NOT provide those views; never, ever.
I have also taken a look to the NCSU and FreePDK free kits, but they only provide pad cells for 0.35um processes, wich are also 3.3V!
Any suggestions on how can I surmount this problem are welcome!
Regards,
Jorge.
P.S. Note: designing the pads myself is not an option: they have to be silicon-proven already (and it would also take me ages to acquire the required expertise!).