June 30, 2022
In this webinar, we highlight how leading display and detector companies exploit the capabilities of Silvaco tools for schematic and layout editing, very accurate field solver-based parasitic extraction required by modern TFT technology, back-annotation of parasitic RC elements into the netlist, and fast and accurate SPICE simulations of large arrays of pixels.
June 9, 2022
In this webinar, we will introduce a solution to the long-standing issue in the display community of Image Retention and how to simulate this effect at the SPICE level.
Self-heating effect may cause over-heated damage and degradation for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices, so numerical counting heat generated, and distribution can optimize the radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) applications. Both conventional and high resistivity, trap-rich SOI substrates are fabricated to investigate self-heating effects. There are two identical n channel metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect transistors (nMOSFETs) placed together to share a common source and the same active silicon region. One MOSFET is biased above threshold voltage and into saturation to heat-up the active region as a heater, and another device is biased into the sub-threshold regime to track the temperature changes as a localized thermometer. Compared to bulk single crystal silicon, the trap-rich SOI substrate consists of a high-defected polysilicon layer, which has introduced between the buried oxide layer and substrate. Due to the grain boundaries, the polysilicon layer has more phonon scattering and less value of thermal conductivity. However, based on the measurement results, two types of substrates SOI devices have similar performance for temperature increased. Therefore, a Silvaco numerical simulation has been issued to analysis the heat flow distribution within the devices and dissipation solution.
May 12, 2022
In this webinar, we will provide an overview of the AMBA AHB subsystems and products offered by Silvaco. Some topics of discussion include Channel vs. Fabric architecture, low power, customization, hardware- and software-based security, and co-verification of the hardware and software.
April, 28, 2022 (PDT)
In this webinar, we will describe SmartSpice’s 4-terminal TFT compact model. Unique in the market, we present some of the characteristics of this compact model, and some of the degrees of freedom that it brings to both the modeling and the design teams.
Victory Mesh support for line statements lets the user customize the volume mesh used by conformal remesh schemes. The volume mesh data inherited from Victory Process can be replaced with a new volume mesh defined within Victory Mesh, allowing full control over the conformal remesh and generating a mesh suitable for device simulation in Victory Device.
In this hints and tips two case studies are discussed.
In the first, a solid modeling case will show how a FinFET is made using solid modeling commands, and how a volume mesh generated with line statements in Victory Mesh is used to generate a conformal remesh. A comparison of device simulations with a refined Delaunay mesh is also presented.
In the second, a buffered super junction LDMOS is loaded from Victory Process and remeshed using a customized volume grid created with line statements in Victory Mesh.
March 24, 2022 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am (PDT)
In this Webinar, we will introduce mqSemi and the 3D TCAD models and simulation results while highlighting Silvaco`s powerful Victory Process and Device.
The flat panel display industry has been growing rapidly for recent years in mobile display, car display, AR/VR applications, and large-scale TVs display. The core technology enabling these applications is the light emitting diode (LED), which is a key component to realize the highly visible, power efficient, displays. For decades, many researchers have developed blue and green LEDs using wide band gap GaN-based wurtzite crystalline material, and successfully manufactured LED devices. However, to make a bright white LED and/or an integrated RGB display, red and yellow LED is also needed. To accomplish this, a smaller bandgap material like a cubic AlGaInP material can be used.
March 10, 2022 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am (PST)
In this webinar we will examine some of the key features and advantages of Utmost IV for device modeling and characterization, and the major design flows where Utmost IV is a key component.