What differentiates Calibre xRC from other products?
A. One of the major benefits of Calibre xRC is that it works directly with Calibre LVS, the leading LVS tool for DSM design. This gives you the confidence of a single-tool flow as described above. In addition, the Calibre xRC tool has several key features which differentiate it from other products. Among these are: a very accurate extraction engine at the gate and transistor level, design-style independence, the ability to extract selected nets, back annotation of parasitic information to the source, and the ability to work with a wide range of popular input and output formats. Also, extraction can create a massive amount of datA. This can present a problem for downstream analysis programs. In preparing data for analysis, Calibre xRC has a database formatter that will postprocess extraction data depending on the type of simulation or analysis being performed.
