A post in EDN: Simulation gets speed, capacity boost

A nice article to read. It's not very technical, but interesting anyway (may because of its not-technicallity...). I copy a paragraph:

"Spice remains only part of the simulation picture as designers add RF/wireless-communications capability to an increasing array of products. And even products that offer no RF/wireless features are exhibiting RF performance as process geometries shrink, digital speeds increase, and high-speed serial-I/O ports proliferate. Furthermore, in many cases, as frequencies rise and designers squeeze more functions into smaller and smaller spaces, chip and board design cannot occur in isolation; co-design and simulation of chip, chip package, and board must take place."

If you wish to read more (which I recommend), follow the link to EDN.

Papers in Solid-State Electronics

Many interesting papers in the Jan-09 issue of Solid-State Electronics:

Surface potential equation for bulk MOSFET, by G. Gildenblat, Z. Zhu, and C.C. McAndrew... (Don't miss this one... it's short, but interesting, mainly for starters)

PSP-SOI: An advanced surface potential based compact model of partially depleted SOI MOSFETs for circuit simulations, by W. Wu, X. Li, G. Gildenblat, G.O. Workman, S. Veeraraghavan, C.C. McAndrew, R. van Langevelde, G.D.J. Smit, A.J. Scholten, D.B.M. Klaassen and J. Watts... this is another must, since it's the presentation in society of the latests efforts in SOI modelling of the PSP team!

Modeling short-channel effects in channel thermal noise and induced-gate noise in MOSFETs in the NQS regime, by Sunil Vallur and R.P. Jindal

A charge-based compact model for predicting the current–voltage and capacitance–voltage characteristics of heavily doped cylindrical surrounding-gate MOSFETs, by Feilong Liu, Jian Zhang, Frank He, Feng Liu, Lining Zhang, and Mansun Chan

Analytic resolution of Poisson–Boltzmann equation in nanometric semiconductor junctions, by Hugues Murray... another must, with well explained mathematics...

A helping aid for paper writing...

By the way, let me present you a very useful tool for paper writing....

Thanks to PhD Comics!

Spam!

First of all, let me apologize for the spam. It seems that, somehow, somebody get the email address that I'm using for posting in the blog and used it to send spam. I've changed it, and I've also changed the configuration in order to prevent this kind of things happening.

PS: happy new year 2009!

MOS-AK publications

I post an e-mail from Wladek Grabinski:

The MOS-AK San Francisco Meeting presentation are available on-line:
http://mos-ak.org/sanfrancisco/
The authors of selected presentation recommended for further IJNM publication will be informed individually.

Let me once again thank our sponsors, Accelicon and Suss MicroTec for their generous support. In particular, I would like to acknowledge Tim Smith for all local organization and logistic coordination as well as Plamen Minev for opening his NOMA gallery for post MOS-AK reception.

I hope, we will have a chance to meet us soon again at one of coming modeling events:

* Frankfurt/O: March/April 2009; http://www.mos-ak.org/frankfurt_o
* Lodz: June 2009; http://www.mixdes.org
* Athens: September 2009; http://www.mos-ak.org/athens

-- with New 2009 Years greetings - W.Grabinski (for MOS-AK Group)

!!! Szczesliwego Nowego 2009 Roku !!!
!!! Ein Frohes Neus Jahr 2009 !!!
!!! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar 2009 !!!
¡¡¡ Feliz Año Nuevo 2009 !!!
!!! Happy New 2009 Year !!!
!!! Bonne Annee 2009 !!!