August 2019

7 years ago

I started out my engineering career by doing transistor-level circuit design and we used a proprietary SPICE circuit simulator. One thing that I quickly realized was that the accuracy of

7 years ago

A quick search of the IEEE Xplore online library gives a list of more than 230 published technical articles on Power Device Simulation using Silvaco TCAD. Here are some recent

7 years ago

The Stellar GUI-based field solver tool for parasitic extraction is now integrated into Hipex, Silvaco’s full chip extraction tool. In Hipex, users have a choice of which RC extraction field

7 years ago

Over the past 50 years in our industry, there have been three invariant principles: Moore’s Law drives the pace of Si technology scaling system memory utilizes MOS devices (for SRAM

7 years ago

In the creation of an ASIC or SoC a wide variety of digital components are needed. Standard logic cells are used to implement the high-level description of the chip which