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28 years ago

Hints & Tips March 1999

Q: I often use the temporary reference point, but I would like to see both absolute coordinates and relative coordinates, without toggling the reference point on and off.

28 years ago

Advanced Pairwise Merging Algorithm for VLSI Floorplanning

This paper concerns the problem of determining optimal placement of rectangular blocks within a rectangular area known as the packing or cutting-stock problem. This problem arises at then floorplanning stage

28 years ago

Introducing Guardian – LVS Verification for PC-based Platforms

Guardian is a (state-of-the-art) hierarchical netlist comparison system, which eliminates many of the disadvantages of existing programs. Running on PCs under Windows NT, it easily compares circuits with a large

28 years ago

Mixed Circuit Device Simulation of Single Event Upset in a Memory Cell

This article presents Single Event Upset (SEU) simulation of a SRAM cell using MixedMode3D. MixedMode3D provides the capability to simultaneously perform circuit simulation coupled with three-dimensional device simulation. This allows

28 years ago

New, Fast Numerical Algorithm for Diffusion Modeling Implemented in ATHENA Version 5.0

A new diffusion algorithm based on a Galerkin method with linear finite elements, an extremely fast sparse matrix solver, and object oriented physical modeling is one of the new features

28 years ago

Hints & Tips January 1999

A. Typically, UTMOST III s-parameter module is used to measure the FT versus IC (collector current) characteristic of bipolar transistors. The FT_CE routine can also be utilized to extract important

28 years ago

New Parameters for TFT model: Amorphous (Level=35) and Poly-Silicon (Level=36) TFT

Several enhancements have been made to the TFT models in SmartSpice. New parameters have been added to improve accuracy and allow simular sophisticated modeling options to MOS.

28 years ago

Enhanced Statistical Features in SPAYN Version 1.7.2

When performing statistical analyses it is often necessary to compute transformations of the observed data. This transformation may only involve a single parameter, or it may be a complicated function

28 years ago

New Built-in Dichotomic Search Algorithm in Smartspice

General purpose dichotomic search method is often requested by designers when they want to find a specific element (voltage, current, parameter value ...) in an already sorted set. For example,

28 years ago

PHILIPS Model 9 New MM9 Extraction Routine in UTMOST III

Philips Level 9 model is widely used as an accurate deep submicron CMOS model. The model is physical, and as such lands itself to accurate extraction methodologies.