Simulators

Today, I'll talk about ngSpice. The link is a page dedicated to this free-source simulator (in fact, it is its homepage). there you can find anything you need to download and compile one of the best simulators going around. However, the point is not only that it is a very good simulator, but that you can also implement your models there. And it's for free.... If you need more, you can also go to the gEDA project, that is a full design suite. It is more oriented to simulation of circuits than to simulation of devices, but it can be useful to device people to check the model in a full design flow.

Conferences

A friend of mine (Benjamin Iñiguez) has sent me links to some important conferences regarding compact modeling. The first one is to be held on Yokohama, Japan on January 23, and it is called the 4th International Workshop on Compact Modeling (IWCM). Lots of interesting talks and many good research being presented there.

The second link is for the 2007 Workshop on Compact Modeling, to be held in Santa Clara on May, 20-24. Also lots of important people (Jamal Deen, Chenming Hu, Matthias Bucher, Tor Fjieldy, Benjamin Iñiguez, Adelmo Ortiz-Conde, etc..), so it is very possible that you will find lots of important results there.

Another conference is the CDE, in Spain. It is a national one, but many good people is going there.