An Update on the OpenPDK for IC Design (by Daniel Payne)

IC designers use EDA tools to implement their logical and physical design, and these tools require foundry-specific information for:

• Design Rule Checking (DRC)
• Layout Versus Schematic (LVS)
• Library Symbols
• Parasitic EXtraction (PEX)

This foundry information is called a Process Design Kit or PDK for short. Now put yourself in the place of the foundry or IDM, and you want to support EDA tools from multiple vendors like: Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Silvaco and Tanner EDA. That adds up to a lot of QA and PDK development effort to support so many EDA vendors and tools. There has to be an easier way to create PDKs instead of one vendor at a time.




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[mos-ak] [2nd announcement] Spring MOS-AK Workshop in London

Spring MOS-AK Workshop in London

Together with the workshop host, Prof. Bal Virdee, Londonmet, FIET MIEEE, and Prof. Mike Brinson, Londonmet, as well as Extended MOS-AK/GSA TPC Committee, we have pleasure to invite to the spring MOS-AK Workshop in London

Venue:

London Metropolitan University 

Graduate Centre

166-220 Holloway Road

London N7 8DB

Important Dates:

• Call for Papers - Dec 2013
  
• 2nd Announcement - Jan. 2014
  
• Final Workshop Program - Feb. 2014
  
• MOS-AK Workshop - March 28-29 2014

R&D topics to be covered include the following:

• Advances in semiconductor technologies and processing
  
• Compact Modeling (CM) of the electron devices
  
• Verilog-A language for CM standardization
  
• New CM techniques and extraction software
  
• CM of passive, active, sensors and actuators
  
• Emerging Devices, CMOS and SOI-based memory cells
  
• Microwave, RF device modeling, high voltage device modeling
  
• Nanoscale CMOS devices and circuits
  
• Technology R&D, DFY, DFT and IC Designs
  
• Foundry/Fabless Interface Strategies
  

Abstract Submission:

Authors should submit an abstract using on-line MOS-AK submission form (any related enquiries can be sent to abstract@mos-ak.org)

Postworkshop publications:

selected best MOS-AK technical presentation will be recommended for further publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields

Extended MOS-AK/GSA Committee

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[mos-ak] [on-line publications] 6th International MOS-AK Workshop Washington DC Dec.11, 2013

Recent, 6th International MOS-AK/GSA Workshop on Dec.11, 2013 in Washington DC was organized to discuss SPICE/compact modeling and its standardization with a freewheeling session to review modeling activities of the CMC, IEEE EDS CMTC, NEEDS NanoHub and MOS-AK Groups. The workshop's presentations are available on-line at <http://www.mos-ak.org/washington_dc_2013/>

Please also distribute further information about next MOS-AK related events among all who are interested in the SPICE/compact modeling:

IWCM at DAC ASP Singapore (SG) Jan. 23, 2014 

http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/elehy/aspdac2014/

Q2 2014 MOS-AK London (UK) March'2014

http://www.mos-ak.org/london_2014/

MIXDES Lwow (UA) June 19-21, 2014

http://mixdes2014.lp.edu.ua/Mixdes3/tekst/view/special

Q3 MOS-AK at 44th ESSDERC / 40th ESSCIRC Venice (I) Sept. 26, 2014

http://www.mos-ak.org/venice_2014/

Already now, I am looking forward to meet you at one of our MOS-AK modeling events, soon.

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Modeling of Systems and Parameter Extraction Working Group
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[mos-ak] SPICE Development Roadmap

The MOS-AK/GSA Modeling Working Group, a global compact modeling standardization forum, delivered its annual autumn compact modeling workshop on Sept. 20, 2013 as an integral part of the ESSDERC/ESSCIRC Conference in Bucharest (RO). The event received full sponsorship from leading industrial partners including Agilent Technologies, LFoundry and Microchip. More than 30 international academic researchers and modeling engineers attended two sessions to hear 12 technical compact modeling presentations and posters including the keynote by Larry Nagel.

The MOS-AK keynote speaker, Larry Nagel, delivered "SPICE in the Twenty-First Century" talk drawing a roadmap of future SPICE development directions. So how will SPICE evolve in the future?  [read more]

In the meantime please also visit <http://www.mos-ak.org/washington_dc_2013/> where we will continue the discussion of all compact/SPICE modeling topics.

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SISPAD 2014 1st Call for Papers

2014 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices

September 9-11, 2014

Workshop, September 8

Mielparque Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

The call for papers is also available on SISPAD2014 Web site. Deadline for submission of SISPAD abstracts: March 31, 2014


Any inquiries on submission should be sent to:

• Steering Chair:  Shinji Odanaka  (Osaka Univ)
• Conference Chair:  Nobuya Mori  (Osaka Univ)
• Program Chair:  Kenichiro Sonoda  (Renesas)
• Program Co-Chair:  Shigeyasu Uno  (Ritsumeikan Univ)

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