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Request: reference RC calibration collateral for generated 3D interface experiments #4297

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@AmurG

I am working on a local Auto-ADK evaluation that generates 3D-IC interface collateral and then validates it through OpenROAD-flow-scripts. I need to avoid treating self-consistent OpenRCX output as calibrated RC evidence.

Current local evidence:

  • Source OpenRCX rules are available and executable for public ORFS platforms. In my current run I see source-RCX SPEF/report evidence for nangate45, sky130hd, and gf180.
  • The local RC calibration boundary scan sees 50 public gf180 source OpenRCX rule candidates, plus nangate45/rcx_patterns.rules and sky130hd/rcx_patterns.rules in the broader extraction evidence.
  • The same scan finds 0 foundry-qualified signoff extraction deck candidates and 0 golden/reference SPEF or golden extractor replay candidates for calibrating a generated 3D interface stack.

Request:

  1. Is any public OpenROAD-flow-scripts artifact considered an owner-approved reference for RC calibration of generated 3D interface collateral, beyond ordinary source OpenRCX rule execution?
  2. If yes, which deck/file set, corner mapping, and comparison thresholds should be used for net capacitance, resistance, and coupling capacitance error metrics?
  3. If no, is there a recommended public reference SPEF, extractor replay, or documented owner policy that downstream generated-collateral experiments should use to distinguish calibration from self-consistent extraction?

The specific blockers I am trying to resolve are:

  • foundry-qualified or owner-approved extraction deck
  • golden/reference SPEF or golden extractor replay
  • corner mapping from public OpenRCX corners to accepted reference corners
  • comparison threshold policy for RC metrics
  • owner acceptance of generated interface layer remapping when source platform RCX rules are reused

Non-claim: I am not asking ORFS to sign off this generated 3D collateral. I am trying to keep a local experiment honest by not calling public OpenRCX SPEF generation "calibrated RC" unless there is an appropriate reference artifact or owner guidance.

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