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Generalize MOS transistor extraction to other gate figures #462

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Currently, the extraction is limited to rectangular gate shapes.

However there are cases where the gate isn't rectangular or it may be circular.

The proposed (and backward-compatible) enhancement is to compute the gate width and length using this alternative scheme:

  • Determine the interacting edges between source and gate and drain
  • Determine their total lengths (E(drain) and E(source))
  • The transistor's width is computed as their average: W = (E(drain) + E(source)) / 2
  • The transistor's length is computed from the relation: A(gate) = W * L, hence L = A(gate) / W

This scheme should be application to all kind of gate/source/drain geometries as long as the basic assumption of a "gate" is applicable. Which is that a gate is basically bridging a source and drain region.

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