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2002

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

25 years ago

Antenna Rule Checks in Savage

Antenna rules is a common name for rules that check ratios of amounts of material in two layers from the same node. They are used to limit the damage of

25 years ago

Expert’s Application Programming Interface (Expert API)

Expert API is intended for customizing and extending the existing software functionality by functions written by the users of Expert using C/C++.

25 years ago

Add Custom Commands to Expert’s Menu

A simple way to add custom commands to Expert's menu is implemented. It is possible to add menu items that execute xi-commands or procedures. To do this, you must put

25 years ago

Non-Stationary Transport Effects: Impact on Performances of Realistic 50nm MOSFET Technology

We analyze quantitatively the real impact of technology on the needed level for carrier transport modeling. The results, based on theoretical analyses, are applied to existing devices. This work shows

25 years ago

QUEST: Frequency-Dependent RLCG Extractor

Signals propagated in actual and future IC's interconnections are spreading, in terms of spectrum frequency, from DC to microwave domain because of the continually increasing clock frequencies of circuits. So,

25 years ago

Modeling of Charge Distribution Using Schrodinger-Poisson Equations: Application to Double-Gate GAA-SOI Transistor

The Gate-All-Around SOI transistor [1], in which the gate oxide and the gate electrode are wrapped around the semiconductor region between the source and drain electrodes, exhibits very attractive features

25 years ago

Installing and using Silvaco TCAD tools on a Windows 2000 Machine

Installing and using Silvaco TCAD tools on a Windows 2000 Machine Introduction Silvaco software supports licensing on Windows NT (Serverice Pack 4. or later) and Windows 2000 Pro. As a

25 years ago

Modella PNP Bipolar Model Released in SmartSpice

The Modella lateral PNP bipolar model was developed by Philips Electronics N.V. and first released to the public domain in 1990 [1,2]. A release of this model has been implemented

25 years ago

New Berkeley BSIM4v2.1 MOSFET Model Available Within SmartSpice/UTMOST III

So far the BSIM3v3.2 MOSFET model, developed by UC-Berkeley, has been considered as the industry standard model for deep-submicron CMOS design. It was rapidly adopted by IC companies and foundries

25 years ago

How to Achieve Good Parameter Optimization Using The New Methodology in UTMOST III Optimizer

Optimization is the task of finding the absolute best set of admissible conditions to achieve your objective, formulated in mathematical terms. The goal of optimization is, given a system, to