The interface part of this tool is developed in Cadence's Skills programming
language. Inside an Opus layout window, this tool can be invoked after
a particular polygon (wire) is highlighted. The physical dimension of the
selected structure is computed and parsed to the LRC engine, which in turn
performs the accurate 3-D field-based calculation. This tool is optimized
for parasitic extraction of specific critical signals within a VLSI chip
(such as clock routes) where the accuracy cannot be compromised. In addition,
as a post-processor, this tool generates Spice netlists (in forms of subckt
macros) for the equivalent, extracted RC, RLC, or LRCG (lossy) trees of
up to three parallel active signal lines. The number of segments (stages)
in a given tree is controlled by an user-defined error tolerance.