Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistor With Hysteresis-Free Sub-60-mV/Decade Switching https://t.co/9Q50HGFkni #papers

Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistor With Hysteresis-Free Sub-60-mV/Decade Switching https://t.co/9Q50HGFkni #papers

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Keysight: Full SPICE Characterization Flow

Keysight Technologies offers half a daya seminar at IEMN, Villeneuve d’Ascq. This free seminar is an opportunity to discover "Full SPICE Characterization Flow". The content is open, based on practical industrial and academic examples to illustrate the features of Keysight CAD/EDA software tools:

• Introduction (20 min)
• Part 1 - Measurements Automatization (30 min)
• Express WaferPro
• Part 2 - Spice Model Extraction  (60 min)
• IC-CAP
• MBP 
• Part 3 - Quality Assurance Model (20 mins)
• MQA 
• Q/A Session (20 min)

Place: Grand Amphithéâtre de l’IEMN, Laboratoire Centrale, Avenue Henri Poincaré F-59491 Villeneuve d’Ascq (F)
Date 17 March 2016

[Register online]

LibreCAD: Call for Your POTM Vote

The vote for April 2016 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until March 15, 2016 12:00 UTC. Here is one of the candidates:

LibreCAD is a fully comprehensive 2D CAD application that you can download and install for free. LibreCAD is an Open Source community-driven project: development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community; you, too, can get involved and influence its future development. LibreCAD has GPLv2 public license – you can use it, customize it, hack it and copy it with free user support and developer support from our active worldwide community and our experienced developer team. There is a large base of satisfied LibreCAD users worldwide, and it is available in more than 20 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, etc. 

Download LibreCAD now.

Alliance: FOSS VLSI/CAD System

Alliance is a complete set of free cad tools and portable libraries for VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools. A complete set of portable CMOS libraries is provided. Alliance is the result of a twelve year effort spent at SoC department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris VI, France). Alliance has been used for research projects such as the 875 000 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000 transistors IEEE Gigabit HSL Router.

Alliance VLSI CAD System is free software. Binaries, source code and cells libraries are freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs without any fee. You are kindly requested to mention: "Designed with Alliance © LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie".

ICs Designed with Alliance

• Smartlabs/Smarthome designed a complete circuit in the XFAB XH035 technology (2014).
• Tokai University (Shimizu Lab) designed the SNX, a 16 bits processor in the ROHM 0.18µm (2010).

Useful Links

• Improved Standard Cell libraries and documentation on how to design them, by Graham Petley: VLSI Technology
• A book presenting Alliance in depth: Introduction to VLSI CMOS Circuits design by Carlos SilvaCardenas, Takeo Yoshida & Alberto Palacios Pawlovsky.
• For Spanish readers, a set of tutorials made by Miguel Eduardo Flores Gomez from Don Bosco University: Tutorial de Alliance

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[video] How to Model RF Passive Devices: Spiral Inductors

How to Model RF Passive Devices: Spiral Inductors

With increasing operating frequencies, the modeling of passive components becomes increasingly important, and there exist no ready-to-use models for inductors, resistors, capacitors etc. Based on the other video of this fundamental device modeling series, (How to Model RF Capacitors and Resistors), this video extends the topic to modeling RF Spiral Inductors. It explains how to develop a Spice model based on verified S-Parameter measurements. Applying an easy to follow, step by step procedure, the video walks you through the entire modeling flow for on-wafer inductors, using the Keysight Measurement and Modeling Software IC-CAP.

The IC-CAP project (modeling spiral inductors with and without metal-1 shielding) can be downloaded together with a detailed pdf explaining the steps demonstrated in the video.

To download the project files referred to in this video visit:
http://www.keysight.com/find/eesof-how-to-model-spiral-inductors

Published on Feb 11, 2016