Technical Paper
Hybrid methodology to extract kinetic and magnetic inductances for superconductor technologies
Calibre hybrid inductance extraction provides fast runtimes and exceptional accuracy for supercomputer IC designs
Superconductors provide the performance and reliability needed for advanced computing technologies, but introduce new challenges for physical verification. Electronic design automation (EDA) tools for magnetic inductance extraction exist in conventional IC design flows, but inductance extraction for superconductors requires a novel methodology to accurately extract both magnetic and kinetic inductance. A hybrid extraction methodology using Calibre xACT and Calibre xL parasitic extraction tools provides a fast, efficient flow for extracting total inductance (kinetic and magnetic) for superconductor chips to enable this advanced technology’s high-performance capabilities.