KLayout-PEX

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KLayout-PEX

KLayout-PEX is a parasitic extraction tool for KLayout. There a multiple engines supported:

  • FasterCap (requires FasterCap installation)
  • MAGIC wrapper (requires MAGIC installation)
  • 2.5D engine (under development)

Check out the documentation website for more information.

Install

pip install klayout-pex

After that, you should be able to run kpex --help.

Acknowledgements

This project is funded by the JKU/SAL IWS Lab, a collaboration of Johannes Kepler University and Silicon Austria Labs.

This project is further funded by the German project FMD-QNC (16ME0831).

Johannes Kepler University: Institute for Integrated Circuits and Quantum Computing            Silicon Austria Labs

Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt