Candidate details

Summary of Quilter’s Candidate Details, highlighting metadata used to sort, filter, and select layout candidates based on specific design criteria.

Overview

Candidate details capture important metadata about your design that can be used to sort, filter, and identify layout candidates that best meet your design criteria.

Available metadata

Quilter presents the following candidate metadata for review, some of which can be used to create filters on the candidate review page.

Field	Description	Filter by?
Candidate name	Idenfities the candidate number for easy identification	❌ No
Routing completion	Identifies the % of pins to route that were successfully completed within the design.	✅ Yes (toggle)
DRC error count	Identifies the number of Quilter-generated DRC violations. Quilter currently prevents any candidate with DRC errors from being surfaced to Candidate Review.	❌ No
Single-sided	Identifies whether the candidate uses single- or double-sided placement.	✅ Yes (checkbox)
Layer count	Identifies the number of layers used in the design.	✅ Yes (multi-select filter)
Minimum trace width	Identifies the minimum trace width used in the design. This figure identifies the actual minimum trace width in the design (not the fabrication rules), which may include narrower widths resulting from neck-downs.	✅ Yes (single-select filter)
Minimum trace clearance	Identifies the minimum trace clearance used in the design.	✅ Yes (single-select filter)
Minimum via diameter	Identifies the minimum via diameter used in the design.	❌ Not yet (planned)
Minimum drill diameter	Identifies the minimum drill diameter used in the design.	❌ Not yet (planned)
Via count	Identifies the number of individual vias used in the design.	❌ No