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Know how your circuit behaves across process variation before silicon tells you, with Monte Carlo-accurate results up to 30X faster.

24 years ago

RPI VCSEL Model Released in SmartSpice

RPI VCSEL model was developed by Professor Michael Shur and his team from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) [1]. A release of this model has been implemented within SmartSpice, and

24 years ago

BSIM3v3 Model Verilog-A Implementation

Berkeley University BSIM3v3 model is the industry-standard, physics-based, deep-submicron MOSFET model for digital and analog circuit designs. This makes BSIM3v3 model a good candidate for implementation in Verilog-A HDL for

24 years ago

New Device Model Card Approach

Normally a single active device model is extracted to cover a range of device geometries and temperature. Sometimes this single scalable model is not sufficient to describe all the changes

24 years ago

SmartSpice Tips: Memory Usage, .MODIF & .ALTER, Non-convergence

When you run a long simulation time analysis the evaluated time points are normally all held in memory until the end time is reached. All the data is then written

24 years ago

Guardian-Net Netlist Extractor: An Example of Specific Device Extraction Using XI-Scripts

Guardian LVS from Silvaco is an efficient, reliable, and diverse package that brings the benefit of high-speed verification to PC-based test environments. Guardian netlist extractor, included with the Guardian suite,

24 years ago

Complex Parallel-Series Reduction

Silvaco’s Guardian LVS tool compares two circuits that are defined by their netlists. The comparison is based strictly on the topological structure of these circuits. Topologically equivalent netlists are considered

24 years ago

Expert Editor Settings and Layer Cleaning

I generated some layers in Expert by DRC script run, and after that, derived layers can not be cleaned by "Tools\Derived Layers\Clean Derived Layers\ Whole Project", otherwise, derived layers generated

24 years ago

Two-Dimensional ATLAS Device Simulation of Pentacene Organic Thin-film Transistors

Recent years has seen rapid acceleration in the research and development of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) as key components for active matrix displays, radio frequency identification tags, and many

24 years ago

Exact2: Interconnect Parasitic Capacitance Simulator

Exact2 from Silvaco is a sophisticated, physically-based simulation tool for calculating semiconductor interconnect capacitance values. Its purpose is to build a capacitance coefficient database that is usable by any layout

24 years ago

Laser Simulation Encompassing Molar Fraction Variation via DevEdit

This article addresses the creation of semiconductor laser double heterostructures, and the subsequent simulation of laser output with DevEdit from Silvaco. A laser consists of a gain medium sandwiched between