CAP_TOP_METAL question: support of MiM capacitors in MOCMOS/mosis

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Alexandre Rusev

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Mar 4, 2021, 10:51:50 AM3/4/21
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I think that adding MiM capacitors to MOCMOS tech is a reasonable thing,
but the capacitor bottom plate layer number (CAP_TOP_METAL) depends on number of layers in particular tech (say SCN6M).

Do I need to add capacitors both for CAP_TOP_METAL==4 and CAP_TOP_METAL==5 to mocmos.xml ???
Or some other approach is to be used for this technology dependence???





Here
and here
we can see that additional metal number CAP_TOP_METAL which is used for MiM capacitor depends on the total number of metal layers





Process Bottom Plate Top Plate Top Plate Contact
TSMC_025 METAL4 CAP_TOP_METAL VIA4 and METAL5
TSMC_018 METAL5 CAP_TOP_METAL VIA5 and METAL6


SkyWater130 PDK supports particular types of MiM capatcitors (https://skywater-pdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rules/device-details.html),
that can be generated with Adam's tool  https://gitlab.com/westernsemico/com.westernsemico.vlsiI didn't learn how to code in the tools' source yet 

For SkyWater we can code particular metal as CAP_TOP_METAL, so no logical problems with it
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