Feb 1, 2017

IEEE Workshop on Compact Modeling

IEEE Workshop on Compact Modeling
March 3, 2017
Technical Sponsorship by: IEEE Electron Devices Society UP Chapter
Organized by: Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Coordinator: Prof. Yogesh Singh Chauhan
Venue: Outreach Auditorium, IIT Kanpur

IEEE Workshop on Compact Modeling Agenda:
Time Topic Speaker
8:00 - 8:15 Workshop inauguration by Director IIT Kanpur and IEEE-UP Chairman
8:15 - 9:00 Industry Standard Compact Modelling Dr. Yogesh Singh Chauhan
IIT Kanpur
9:00 - 9:30 Modelling of mismatch and process variations Dr. Abhisek Dixit
IIT-Delhi
9:30 - 10:00 TBA Dr. Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra
IIT-Gandhinagar
10:00 - 10:30 Modelling of normally-off GaN based MOSHEMT Dr. Trupti Ranjan Lenka
NIT Silchar
10:30 - 10:45 ASM-HEMT: Industry standard compact model for GaN HEMTs Dr. Sudip Ghosh
IIT-Kanpur
10:45 - 11:00 Modelling of quasi ballistic transport in nano-wire transistors Mr. Avirup Dasgupta
IIT Kanpur
11:00 - 11:15 TBA Mr. Priyank Rastogi
IIT Kanpur
11:15 - 11:30 Compact modelling of TMD based thin body transistors Mr. Chandan Yadav
IIT Kanpur
11:30 - 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 - 12:15 Qualification techniques for sim models for EEsof products Mr. Mohit Khanna
Keysight Technologies
12:15 - 12:45 High frequency device characterization and modeling for THz applications Prof. Thomas Zimmer
IMS-BORDEAUX
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:30 Device design consideration: IoT perspective Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
IIT-Indore
2:30 - 3:00 TBA Dr. Aditya Sankar Medury
IISER-Bhopal
3:00 - 3:30 Simulations, analysis and applications of doping- and junction- free transistors Dr. Jawar Singh
IIIT-Jabalpur
3:30 - 4:00 Design of radiation hardened 24-bit ADC for generic applications Mr. H.S.Jattana
SCL
4:00 - 4:15 Tea Break
4:15 - 4:45 Role of Feynman diagrams in energy band structure of materials - A post density functional theory approach Dr. Sitangshu Bhattacharya
IIIT-Allahabad
4:45 - 5:15 TBA Dr. Swaroop Ganguly
IIT-Bombay
5:15 - 5:45 TBA Dr. Saurabh Lodha
IIT-Bombay
5:45 - 6:15 TBA Dr. Udayan Ganguly
IIT-Bombay
6:15 - 6:45 TBA Dr. Manoj Saxena
Delhi University
6:45 - 7:00 Closing Keynote

Jan 31, 2017

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[chapter] Near-Threshold Digital Circuits for Nearly-Minimum Energy Processing

Near-Threshold Digital Circuits for Nearly-Minimum Energy Processing
Massimo Alioto
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
in Enabling the Internet of Things; pp 95-148 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51482-6_4
This chapter addresses the challenges and the opportunities to perform computation with nearly-minimum energy consumption through the adoption of logic circuits operating at near-threshold voltages. Simple models are provided to gain an insight into the fundamental design tradeoffs. A wide set of design techniques is presented to preserve the nearly-minimum energy feature in spite of the fundamental challenges in terms of performance, leakage and variations. Emphasis is given on debunking the incorrect assumptions that stem from traditional low-power common wisdom at above-threshold voltages. The traditional EKV model is very useful for quick estimates, but it oversimplifies the IV characteristics that is observed in actual nanometer CMOS technologies [read more...]

[paper] Electronically tunable MOSFET-based resistor

Electronically tunable MOSFET-based resistor used in a variable gain amplifier or filter
W. L. Tan, C. H. Chang and L. Siek
Nanyang Technological University; Singapore 
2016 International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), Singapore, 2016, pp. 1-4.
doi: 10.1109/ISICIR.2016.7829715
Abstract: We present a new design of an electronically tunable linear MOS resistor circuit that operates in the subthreshold saturation region, supported with mathematical derivations and simulation results using CSM0.13µm technology. For a given potential difference across the MOS resistor, its gate voltage will be automatically biased through feedback to provide the correct amount of current based on the desired resistance set through the bias current. Equating the output current of the OTA with the subthreshold equation of the EKV model. In comparison with an existing design, the proposed design offers equal tunabilty with 36 less transistors for unidirectional current and 28 less transistors with one more bias current transistor for bidirectional current. A bias current ranging between 10nA to 100nA offers a tunable linear resistance between 20MΩ to 140MΩ [read more...]

Jan 30, 2017

OCS: Octave Circuit Simulator

OCS was developed during the CoMSON (Coupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization) project which involved several universities but also several industrial partners. Each of the industrial partners at the time was using its own circuit simulation software and each software had different file formats for circuit netlists. Given the purposes of the project and the composition of the consortium the main design objectives for OCS where
  • provide a format for "element evaluators" independent of time-stepping algorithms
  • provide a "hierarchical" data structure where elements could be composed themselves of lumped-element networks
  • allow coupling of lumped-element networks (0D) and 1D/2D/3D device models
  • use an intermediate/interchange file format so that none of the formats in use by the industrial partners would be favoured over the others
  • be written in an interpreted language for quick prototyping and easy maintenance
  • be Free Software