Display Technology Solutions

From Device Technology Development to Complete Display Design

Display Development Environment

Silvaco’s display development solution enables designers to develop displays from the pixel level device to a complete manufacturing ready design. Silvaco’s display development solutions are in production use with industry leading display panel providers worldwide.

Utilizing proprietary built-in functions custom-tailored for display device and circuit design, our solution enables display designers to create, model, and simulate physical devices at the device level with TCAD. For display circuit design, our solution delivers a high-performance design environment including schematic capture, circuit layout and simulation, and physical verification.

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Technologies

OLED / MicroLED
Backplane (CMOS, TFT)
Flexible and Stretchable Substrate

Benefits

Industry’s only complete display device development solution
Supports all backplane and light emitting technologies
Rich set of proprietary technologies to reduce costs and time to market
Access to deep expertise supporting leading display manufacturers

Applications

Vehicle Display
Smartphone and Tablet
Smart Wearable, AR / VR
Transparent Display

Technology Development

Process and Device Simulation

Process modeling and emulation
Drift/Diffusion device simulation
Complete coverage of multiple transistor types including a-Si TFT, LTPS TFT, IGZO TFT, and Bulk CMOS
Bump/tail density of states modeling, mobility models specific to poly-Si and amorphous materials
Modeling bending stress effects, hydrogen effects, grain effects
Emitter devices including LED, OLED, microLED / microOLED
Proprietary mobility model with self-heating effects
Reverse Ray Tracing
TFT electrical stress effects
Device design and experimentation

Device Modeling

A variety of optimization algorithms, enabling flexible strategies for parameter extraction
Wide selection of TFT compact models
- 4 Terminal Silvaco-proprietary TFT Model
- Supports Verilog-A parameter extraction, heavily utilized in the FPD industry
- RPI Amorphous-Si, polysilicon, and universal organic TFT Models

Design, Simulation and Verification

Schematic and Layout

Device Explorer – basic characteristics of the device in a circuit schematic are immediately accessible, and can be explored in simulation
DRC assist, edit-in-place, connectivity highlighting, short locator, embedded layout vs. layout, cross-sectional viewer
Equal-resistance router, route along curve, pixel with frame, fan shaped connections, clone wires, slot wires

Parasitic Extraction