i-MOS version 201404 release

The i-MOS Team has announced  new release of the interactive Modeling and On-line Simulation
Platform (i-MOS), version 201404. In this release, there are several new services listed as follows:

• Integrating the model benchmark testing suites in Model page
• Including first three benchmark tests for model evaluations
• Constructing the Developer page for device model submissions
• Implementing one industry standard MOSFET model HiSIM2
• Uploading presentation files from IWCM 2014 for your references

For more details, please visit the i-MOS website.

ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2014 - Paper submission deadline extension

the Organizing Committee decided to extend the paper submission deadline of the 44th ESSDERC and 40th ESSCIRC to:

April 16th, 2014 23:59 (GMT - 07:00 am)

This is a hard deadline and no further extensions will be granted. After the deadline is elapsed, further paper submissions will not be accepted. The notification of paper acceptance, May 27, 2014, has not changed. Detailed information about the conferences is provided at the ESSCIRC/ESSDERC 2014 website.

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VI Regional Seminar MNE & MS 2014

VI Regional Seminar on Computer Modeling and Designing in Micro- and Nanoelectronics and in Microelectromechanical Systems (MNE & MS 2014),

Orel, Russia, March 28 2014

1. С.И. Матюхин¹, Welcome and Seminar Openning,
   ¹Госуниверситет-УНПК
2. Турин В.О.¹, Кильчицкая М.В.², Герасимов К.А.², Simulation of power bipolar transistor,
   ¹Госуниверситет-УНПК, ²БГТУ, г. Брянск
3. Ващенко В.А., The physical ESD design for integrated circuits and electronic devices,
   Maxim Integrated Corp., г. Сан Хосе, Калифорния, США
4. Цырлов А.М., Development of CMOS optocoupler,
   ОАО «Протон», г. Орёл
5. Студенников А.С., Development of CMOS ICs,
   ОАО «Протон», г. Орёл
6. Малый Д.О.¹, Матюхин С.И.², Ставцев А.В.¹, "Proton-Elektroteks" IGBT-devices JSC: basic approaches of production and quality assurance,
   ¹ЗАО «Протон-Электротекс», г. Орёл, ²Госуниверситет-УНПК
7. Макулевский Г.Р., Матюхин С.И., Current-voltage characteristics of laser diodes based on AlGaAs,
   Госуниверситет-УНПК
8. Матюхин С.И., Гришин В.О., Radiation effects of on the current-voltage characteristic of power diodes and thyristors,
   Госуниверситет-УНПК
9. Писарев А.А.¹, Матюхин С.И.², Сурма А.М.¹, Черников А.А.¹, Electrical characteristics of fast diodes with soft recovery,
   ¹ЗАО «Протон-Электротекс», г. Орёл, ²Госуниверситет-УНПК
10. Koziol Z., Aestimo quantum mechanical software for modeling quantum wells in nanoelectronics,
    TU Rzeszow, Polska

The ITRS, 2013 Edition is now online.

 The link below will take you to the site for the summary information
http://www.itrs.net/Links/2013ITRS/Summary2013.htm

 For the full edition details, follow this link
http://www.itrs.net/Links/2013ITRS/Home2013.htm

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Possible VTH Variation Sources

with 16 nm FinFET devices, the nature of the VTH variation changes.  On planar CMOS, random dopant fluctuations (RDFs) had the biggest influence. 

Possible VTH Variations

Ideal FinFETs have no doping, and therefore no RDFs.  However, this only works for low voltage operation.  We also need high-speed devices, which requires multiple threshold voltages (Vth's).  For FinFETs, this requires doping leading to RDF variation.  

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New IJNM Paper

 
Open-source circuit simulation tools for RF compact semiconductor device modelling (Invited Paper)
 
Wladek Grabinski (Editor), Mike Brinson, Paolo Nenzi, Francesco Lannutti, Nikolaos Makris, Angelos Antonopoulos and Matthias Bucher
 
Keywords:
CAD; GNU; Qucs; QucsStudio; ngspice; compact modelling; EKV3; RF; MOSFET; Verilog-A
 
Article first published online: 18 MAR 2014 DOI: 10.1002/jnm.1973

website http://www.tcad.com is up and running

The www.tcad.com website promoting open source Technology Computer Aided Design and posting related news is up and running. Among other news there is also update of the DEVSIM Open Source TCAD Simulator which is available for download at SourceForge, now.  Packages are available for:

• Mac OS X Mavericks
• Red Hat 6.5
• Ubuntu 12.04

For more information about the project, including source code availability, please visit DEVSIM webpage. Additional resource are also available at the TCADCentral 

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