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Simulation Standard

Technical Journal

A Journal for Process and Device Engineers

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, predictions of impedance, delay, rise/fall times and crosstalk levels need to be investigated within this whole spectrum. QUEST is a powerful two-dimensional extractor of the RLCG frequency dependent parameters of the transmission lines.

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 [2,3]. This device has been shown to present excellent Ion/Ioff trade-off, good threshold voltage roll-off reduction and better resisting to short-channel effect and DIBL. In this study, based on the self-consistent solution of Schrodinger and Poisson equations, we attempt to show that the maximum of electrons concentration can be located in the middle of the semiconductor film and that there exists an "optimal" thickness of the Si-film.

Installing and using Silvaco TCAD tools on a Windows 2000 Machine

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 within SmartSpice, and can be accessed by setting the LEVEL parameter of the BJT model card to 500.

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 for modeling devices down to 0.25 . However, for device scale down to 0.10 , some physical mechanisms need to be better characterized.

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 find the setting of it's parameters so that to obtain the optimal performance. The performance of the system is given by an evaluation function. Optimization problems are commonly found in a wide range of fields, and it is also of central concern to many problems.