What's the best tool for on chip inductors extraction?

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asitic inductor vpcd

I mean EM simulation.
HFSS? Momentum from Agilent? VPCM from Candence? Or some tools designed in University... So many!
Any trustable tool?
 

Lorentz, VPCM (or VPCD now) are good tools for 2.5D simulation. HFSS is 3D and is more accurate. HOwever, all the tools require some sort of calibration of the technology from measured data
 

I suggest you go use models from Fab for canonical inductor structures.

Or you just go HFSS, it is very well correlated with TSMC model as I tried.

Don't trust Agilent. Don't trust Asitics.
 

ASitic is a very preliminary tool. But using the post silicon data from the fab and the models from fab are more trustworthy.
 

I disagree with mike.
Momentum is widely used in MW companies to simulate planar inductors in the multiGHz range. It's level of accuracy is very high, PROVIDED THAT MATERIALS ARE WELL CHARACTERIZED AND MODELIZED.

Mazz
 

i agree with mazz

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