Simulation Standard

Know how your circuit behaves across process variation before silicon tells you, with Monte Carlo-accurate results up to 30X faster.

23 years ago

Topography Simulation of Trench Etch Using Monte Carlo Plasma Etch Model with Polymer Re-deposition

1. Introduction The topography simulation module, Elite has constantly been improved in order to simulate advanced processes, which are becoming more complex with device miniaturization and further integration of VLSI

23 years ago

TCAD Simulation of a Polysilicon Thin Film Transistor For Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays

Polysilicon thin film transistors are attractive as active devices in driver circuits of highly integrated active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) and as p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) in static

23 years ago

IBIS Models in SmartSpice

The Input/Output Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) is a standard for electronic behavioral models based on I/V and V/T curve data. It is being developed by the IBIS Open Forum, which

23 years ago

New Features in SmartSpice 2.3.4.C

A powerful new feature “Stop-Continue” has been added to SmartSpice to allow the user to suspend a transient simulation and investigate the output before resuming the simulation run from the

23 years ago

Spectre® Replacement in the Cadence Flow

Silvaco has always supported the Solaris based Cadence design environment for seemless SmartSpice integration. To accommodate new customer demands to support the new Linux environment, Silvaco has developed a SmartSpice

23 years ago

New Functionality – BUS notation in SmartSpice

A new notation has been introduced into SmartSpice to allow a compact expression of a multiple bit wire buss to be used. From this expression the user can simply state

23 years ago

Role of Netlist Extraction in Process Design Kits

Netlist extraction and the quality of netlist extraction is becoming of increasing concern for integrated circuit design flow. As circuits become more complicated with concomitant reductions in geometry, the design

23 years ago

Parasitic Resistor Extraction with HIPEX-R

HIPEX-R is part of HIPEX software package for physical verification of multimillion transistor designs. It is a hierarchical full chip parasitic resistance extraction tool.

23 years ago

HIPEX-Net: New SILVACO Full-Chip LPE Tool vs. Maverick

SILVACO is releasing its new layout parameter extractor: HIPEX-NET. The new tool will replace Silvaco’s Maverick, which is a part of Guardian LVS/ERC. While being fully compliant with Maverick, HIPEX-NET

23 years ago

Measurement of Spacing Checks in Guardian DRC

In previous versions of Guardian DRC there were only two ways of measuring the distance between two segments: the ordinary, Euclidean metric, and the square metric, which behaves differently when