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From: Grant Riley <grantril@us.ibm.com>
Subject: I Already Have Raphael; Should I Switch To Raphael NES (Quickcap)?
Hello, John,
I am a design kit developer for the IBM SIGE RF/Analog design kits.
I am interested in purchasing Raphael NES (Quickcap). My group currently
has one copy of Raphael. I know that Quickcap is most often used as a
'golden' capacitance extraction tool when comparing parasitic extraction
tool capacitance accuracy. I currently use Raphael as our 'golden' 3D
extractor, but am thinking of replacing it with Quickcap. I believe there
are many reasons for this switch. Here are just a couple:
- Quickcap offers full chip extraction for critical nets.
- Quickcap is a full chip extraction tool.
- Raphael works well for test structures, but for large structures the
run times are not reasonable.
- Raphael is more accurate than Quickcap for capacitance but the run
times are long.
So the question is, is it worth switching to Quickcap knowing that Quickcap
is $78 K and I already have Raphael in house?
- Grant Riley
IBM
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