Symbolic Parasitic Extractor for Circuit Simulation (SPECS)

This paper describes the design, development and implementation of the program SPECS. The purpose of SPECS is to automatically extract from a Rockwell microelectronic symbolic matrix description a netlist for circuit simulation. This program differs from others in that it uses a symbol layout matrix as an input, calculates both interelectrode and intrinsic capacitance, calculates conductor resistance, produces a schematic representation of the network and has a selective TRACE, i.e., traces only the circuit or network of interest.