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Is it possible to pour a plane in Virtuoso?

CADcasualty
CADcasualty over 5 years ago

I have a design that comprises an array of cells that each contain an isolated stack of VDD! and VSS! vias. The cells are made such that they already do correctly hook themselves up to VDD! and VSS! busses at the top met-6 level, although no such supply bussing exist below met-6 (if you don't include the substrate and well contacts at the bottom of the stacks). Any transistors needing supply connections have routes making their way to any one of those via stacks.

I'd like to do the equivalent of a feature routinely found in PCB layout software i.e. pouring a plane, whereby I draw e.g. a VDD! a rectangle around (or even within) the array on a particular layer and it automatically connects to all VDD! nets within the rectangle but carves out the appropriate clearances to everything else. I want to do this to both reduce the parasitic supply resistance and to also shield many of the sensitive nodes at the lower levels from each other. Is this possible in Virtuoso?

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  • Alex Soyer
    Alex Soyer over 5 years ago

    Hello,

    This feature is available in the new Virtuoso® RF Solution which is part of ICADVM 18.1.

    If you would like to know more about it you can look at this article:

    https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/custom-ic-analog-rf-design/custom-ic-analog-rf-flows/virtuoso-rf-solution.html

    I would suggest you to contact your Cadence support team to get more details about it.

    Thanks,

    Alex

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  • CADcasualty
    CADcasualty over 5 years ago in reply to Alex Soyer

    Thanks Alex. Sigh, I wish it was available in the normal Virtuoso...

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