Approach to Integration of a Synthesis Tool and PDK for Commercial EDA

Models from PDKs are needed to consider the MMIC manufacturing process in the schematic synthesis. PDKs are developed for specific commercial EDA. The information about PDK's models is often proprietary, which leads to some difficulties during the synthesis process. In this paper the approaches to integrate a synthesis tool and a PDK are considered. PDK twin approach is selected as the most effici...