DeckBuild & TonyPlot
DeckBuild, TonyPlot, and Virtual Wafer Fab (VWF)
The Interactive Tools are a suite of applications that provide interactive GUI-based pre and post processing services to Silvaco’s TCAD simulators. The tools within the interactive tools suite are fully integrated and provide users with a comfortable environment within which all TCAD simulations can be performed.
Benefits
- Easy to use interface to all Silvaco TCAD Simulation solutions
- Debug and visualization of TCAD simulation code, easy access to help, quick launch of results
- Customization of runtime scripting including variables, loops, if/else statements and file control commands
Applications
- Advanced CMOS – Bulk CMOS, PDSOI, FDSOI, FinFET
- Power & RF – BCD, Power Diode, IGBT, Thyristor, GaN HEMT, SiC DMOS, SiC LMOS, etc
- Display – Amorphous- and Poly-Si TFT, IGZO TFT, LED, OLED, MicroLED
- Optoelectronics – CCD, CMOS Image Sensor, Avalanche Photodiode, PiN Photodiode, Solar Cell
Overview
- Deckbuild allows users to build, debug, and run all Silvaco TCAD solutions
- Tonyplot & Tonyplot3d are allow interactive visualization of TCAD results
- Virtual Wafer Fab expands the user’s ability to maximize TCAD simulation throughput
- generate design-of-experiments to make any TCAD input a variable in a multi-variable experiment
- Optimize TCAD simulation against a scalar or vector target
TCAD Run-Time Environment
- Deckbuild is an interactive, GUI-driven development and debugging of simulation decks
- Streamline simulation flows by integrating all Silvaco simulators and TCAD visualization tools into one GUI
- Powerful extraction language capable of measuring process and device parameters like thicknesses or voltages and to create all forms of 1D curves (IdVd / IdVg.)
- Automated visualization of simulation created structures and extracted curves
- Powerful post-processing engine, which allows the production of PDF reports and movies of simulation progress
- Integrated Python-3 module to support advanced simulator control and extract mechanisms, and to implement custom GUI components
- Powerful simulation flow editor allowing to combine individual simulation decks into complex hierarchical flow
Results Visualization
- Tonyplot & Tonyplot3D allow visualization of all outputted TCAD results
- Rotation and zooming by intuitive mouse actions
- Point and click probing of points within the 3D structure
- Plot surface contours and isosurfaces for any simulated variable
- Cut-plane tool for creating 2D slices
- Supports all common 1D and 2D data views including: 1D x-y data, 2D contour data, 2D meshed data, smith charts and polar charts
- Integrated suite of probes, rulers, and other measurement tools allows detailed analysis of 1D and 2D structures
- Animated markers allow quick visualization of vector quantities within devices
- Function and macro editor allows complex functions and macros to be defined that can be visualized as normal 1D quantities, enabling calculation of M-plots for OLED devices
Design-of-Experiment & Optimization
- Virtual Wafer Fab (VWF) Design of Experiments or Optimization runtime environment
- Support for all Silvaco TCAD simulators, SmartSpice, and Utmost IV model extractor
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- Import/export features to copy data to/from the database
- Results exportable into Excel or OpenOffice spreadsheet formats
TCAD Resources
Presentations
- DTCO Tool Flow – Single Run-Time Environment for Design Technology Co-Optimization
- Optical Simulations – Light Emitting and Absorbing Devices
- Power Device Solutions – Full TCAD to SPICE Flow
- Parasitic Extraction – Full Chip and Cell Level RC Extraction
- Radiation Effects Module – Total Dose and Single Event Phenomenon, Damage Inducing and Elastic Interactions
Product Briefs
Published Papers
Simulation Standard
Webinars
Videos
Webinar Preview: TCAD Introduction and the Basics Part 1
TCAD Introduction and the Basics-Part 3
Webinar Preview: Optimization of the Select Gate Transistor in a 3D NAND Memory Cell
TCAD Simulation of Wide Bandgap Power Devices - Webinar Preview
Leakage Current TCAD Calibration in a Si TFTs Preview
TCAD Simulation of Organic Optoelectronic Devices
TCAD Simulation of Ion Transport and Electrochemistry
Solar cell modeling using TCAD and SPICE
How to Search the TCAD Examples
Dr. Eric Guichard, Vice President of the TCAD Division, Display Week 2019 Interview
Vincent Lee, CEO of Lumiode, Display Week 2019 Interview
Simulation of Reliability and NBTI Aging in MOS Microelectronics
Modeling and Analysis of Single Event Effects - Webinar Preview
Simulation of Physical Etching in Memory
News
Blogs
Customers
Coby Hanoch
Silvaco provides state-of-the-art device models and TCAD tools that are widely used by semiconductor companies. We are excited to establish this joint development program with Silvaco so customers will have early access to our ReRAM technology on the most powerful simulation tools in the industry and can fast-track the release of their next-generation products. This is another key step by Weebit Nano to accelerate the incorporation of ReRAM technology by a larger number of OEM customers.
Weebit Nano
CEO
Takashi Shinohe
We are developing gallium oxide devices with a completely new proprietary manufacturing method. Utilizing a device simulator will become important in order to efficiently develop such new devices. For the decision to use Silvaco’s device simulator, the deciding factors were Silvaco’s extensive track record with wide band gap semiconductors, and Silvaco’s depth of knowledge of power devices. We expect to see even more progress in our development of GaO™ power devices as we move toward practical applications.
FLOSFIA
CTO
2020 TCAD Baseline Release Section 1: Process Simulation – New Features in 2020 Baseline Release
2020 TCAD Baseline Release Section 2: Meshing – New Features in 2020 Baseline Release
2020 TCAD Baseline Release – Device Simulation – New Features in 2020 Baseline Release
Victory TCAD Suite: How to use it for fast, efficient, and accurate simulation of power semiconductor devices