FOSDEM 2018 CAD and Open Hardware Devroom Call for Participation

(Also visible at https://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2018)

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2018 devroom on Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools and Open Hardware, to be held on Saturday 3 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks and tutorials covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce,GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen) and HDL synthesis tools (e.g. Yosys)
• Field solvers such as openEMS
• Mechanical 2D and 3D CAD tools such as LibreCAD, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD andSolveSpace
• Open Hardware projects such as the Teres laptop and the lowRISC SoC
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS CAD and Open Hardware developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. This devroom is an evolution of the EDA devroom we organised in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

The submission process: Please submit your proposals at

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 before 1 December 2017.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "CAD and Open Hardware Devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

• 1 December 2017: deadline for submission of proposals
• 8 December 2017: announcement of final schedule
• 3 February 2018: devroom day

Recordings: The FOSDEM organisers hope to be able to live-stream and record all the talks. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded, not informal discussions and whatever happens during the lunch break. By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organisers will agree to make exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.

Mailing list: Feel free to subscribe to the mailing list of the CAD and Open Hardware devroom to submit ideas, ask questions and generally discuss about the event:

https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-hardware-devroom

Spread the word!

[paper] Modeling, simulation and implementation of circuit elements in an open-source tool set on the FPAA

Modeling, simulation and implementation of circuit elements in an open-source tool set on the FPAA

Aishwarya Natarajan and Jennifer Hasler

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta USA

Analog Integr Circ Sig Process (2017), pp 1–12

doi:10.1007/s10470-016-0914-y

ABSTRACT: An open-source simulator to design and implement circuits and systems, replicating the results from the Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA) is presented here. The fundamental components like the transistors, amplifiers and floating gate devices have been modeled based on the EKV model with minimal parameters. Systems including continuous-time filters and the analog front-end of a speech processing system have been built from these basic components and the simulation results and the data from the FPAA are shown. The simulated results are in close agreement to the experimental measurements obtained from the same circuits compiled on the FPAA fabricated in a 350 nm process [read more...]

FOSDEM 2017 EDA Devroom Call for Participation

FOSDEM 2017 Electronic Design Automation Devroom
Call for Participation

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2017 devroom on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, to be held on Sunday 5 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks and tutorials covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce, GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen) and HDL synthesis tools (e.g.Yosys)
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS EDA developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. Have a look at last year's event for a taste of what the EDA devroom is about.

The submission process
Please submit your proposals at 

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17 

before 1 December 2016.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Electronic Design Automation (EDA) devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

• 1 December 2016: deadline for submission of proposals
• 11 December 2016: announcement of final schedule
• 5 February 2017: devroom day

Recordings
The FOSDEM organisers hope to be able to live-stream and record all the talks. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded, not informal discussions and whatever happens during the lunch break. By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organisers will agree to make exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.
Mailing list

Feel free to subscribe to the mailing list of the EDA devroom to submit ideas, ask questions and generally discuss about the event.

Spread the word!
This is the third EDA devroom at FOSDEM. The first two were very well received. Let's make sure as many projects and developers as possible are present. Thanks!

SourceForge Project: FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a general purpose feature-based, parametric 3D modeler for CAD, MCAD, CAx, CAE and PLM, aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but also fits a wider range of uses in engineering, such as architecture or other engineering specialties. It is 100% Open Source and extremely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.

FreeCAD is based on OpenCasCade, a powerful geometry kernel, features an Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model provided by the Coin 3D library, and a broad Python API. The interface is built with Qt. FreeCAD runs exactly the same way on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux platforms. [Download FreeCAD]

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.

gEDA Edinburgh meetup - Saturday 6th February 2016

gEDA Edinburgh Meetup

Saturday 6th February 2016

---------- Fwd message ----------
From: "Peter TB Brett"
Date: 3 Feb 2016 13:57
Subject: gEDA Edinburgh meetup - Saturday 6th February 2016 
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Hi all,
There will be a UK meet-up and hack day this weekend.

• Edinburgh, UK
  Saturday 6th of February

It'll be at my place, so if you want to come, send me a direct e-mail and I'll send details by private e-mail.

Sorry for the short notice. It's on Saturday so as not to conflict with the PCB hack day on Sunday.

Peter Clifton and I will both be there, and everybody else who can attend for all or some of the day will be welcome. We'll also be using the #geda channel on irc.oftc.net

If you use or develop free and open source system (FOSS) design and simulation software, you'd be welcome to attend!

Peter

---------- End of Fwd message ----------

Free Computational Electromagnetic Modeling Codes

The software in this list is either free or available at a nominal charge and can be downloaded over the internet. Some of the codes require the user to register with the distributor's web site. If you are familiar with other free EM modeling software that that should be added to this list, please send the name of the software, a hypertext link, and a brief description to CVEL-L@clemson.edu.

This page has been translated into Italian here, Serbo-Croatian here, Slovakian here, Swedish here and Polish here and here.

(Page last update: December 14, 2015 )

ASAP - Antenna Scatterers Analysis Program
AtaiTec Free 2D Field Solver
ATLC - Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator
ATLC2 - Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator 2
emAnalyze
EMAP
EMCoS Antenna VLab SV
EM Explorer
emGine Environment
ERMES
FastCap and FastHenry
FEKO LITE
FEMM - Finite Element Method Magnetics
gprMax
MagNet (Infolytica)
MMANA-GAL (basic version)
MEEP
MMTL
Multiple Multipole (MMP) Algorithms
NEC2
newFasant (student version)
openEMS
pdnMesh
Puma-EM
Qsci
Radia
SATE Static Field Analysis Toolkit (Educational)
Students' QuickField
Sonnet Lite
Trace Analyzer

FOSDEM 2016 EDA Devroom

FOSDEM 2016: EDA Devroom

Room: AW1.121 

Saturday, 30 January 2016

Software developers have a much easier time sharing their developments than hardware designers. When you put a piece of code on the Web, you don't ask yourself if others will have the freedom and resources to access a text editor to look at it and modify it, or a compiler or interpreter to have the code do something useful. The landscape for hardware designs is more complicated. The dominant design and simulation tools are proprietary, and there is not even a de-facto proprietary standard format to share designs. The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Devroom looks at recent progress in Free CAD/EDA Tools for hardware design and simulation, and serves as a meeting place for discussion about future collaborations and FOSS developments. Come and see how some of these tools are actually catching up, and sometimes even more, in terms of features and quality.

[EDA Devroom Detailed Agenda]

[Call for Participation] FOSDEM 2016 Electronic Design Automation Devroom

 Call for Participation 

FOSDEM 2016 Electronic Design Automation Devroom 

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2016 devroom on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, to be held on Saturday 30 January 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce, GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen)
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS EDA developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. Have a look at last year's event for a taste of what the EDA devroom is about.

The submission process
Please submit your proposals at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 

before 4 December 2015.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "EDA devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

• 4 December 2015: deadline for submission of proposals
• 18 December 2015: announcement of final schedule
• 30 January 2016: devroom day

[Read More]

3rd Training Course on Compact Modeling

 3rd TCCM, 

 organized as IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium 
 (http://eds.ieee.org/lectures.html?eid=136)

Co-organizer: Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Technical Program Promoter: DMCS, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland

Date: June 24, 2015.
Place: Hotel Bulwar (Lejda room) ul. Bulwar Filadelfijski 18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
www: http://www.hotelbulwar.pl

Final schedule of TCCM:
9:00 Wladek Grabinski, Opening
9:10 Henryk Przewłocki, "Weaknesses and corrections of the classical theory of photoelectric phenomena in the MOS system"
10:00 Juin J.Liou, "Compact Modeling of Junction Failure in Semiconductor Devices Subject to Electrostatic Discharge Stresses"
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Jean-Michel Sallese, "Modeling Junctionless Field Effect Transistors"
12:00 Mike Brinson, "A unified approach to compact device modelling with the open source packages Qucs/ADMS and MAPP/Octave"
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Benjamin Iniguez, "Physically-Based Compact Modeling of GaN HEMT"
15:20 Wladek Grabinski, "Verilog-A Compact Model Standardization"
16:10 Daniel Tomaszewski, "Compact modeling and statistical modeling for parametric yield improvement"
17:00 Wladek Grabinski, Closing

Semiconductor Devices Characterization Seminar

Technical Seminars addressing the challenges of CMOS, Power and RF

semiconductor device measurement and modeling 

Agilent and it´s 25 collaborative partners invite you to attend this complimentary technical seminar on characterization and modeling of semiconductor devices. Two tracks in parallel will address the needs for:

• Small scale silicon industry
• Power silicon industry and RF Power

Common topics to both Tracks:

• Live demonstration of GaN device characterization flow: DC I-V characteristic extraction, RF Power measurement, Spice models creation for further usage in design stage.

CMOS Track:

• Accurate and repeatable on-the-wafer device extraction – Cascade Microtech
• DC characterization for emerging nano-technologies
• Flicker Noise and Random Telegraph Noise
• Spice model libraries optimization for dedicated application

Power & RF Power Track:

• High Power Devices measurement
• III-V devices spice model (DynaFET)
• Nonlinear Component characterization
• Non-50ohm Load Pull solution – Maury

Where/when:
To obtain the detail agenda of the nearest session, please select one of the locations below.

Country	City	Date	More Information
FR	Grenoble	18 September 2014	Register here
FI	Helsinki	23 September 2014	Register here
DE	Munich	30 September 2014	Register here
DE	Dresden	2 October 2014	Register here
CH	Lausanne	14 October 2014	Register here
BE	Leuven	16 October 2014	Register here
NL	Eindhoven	17 October 2014	Register here
SW	Goteborg	28 October 2014	Register here
UK	Cambridge	30 October 2014	Register here
FR	Les Ulis	6 November 2014	Register here

 

 

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

13. ITG/GMM-Fachtagung Analog 2013

13. ITG/GMM-Fachtagung Analog 2013
4. - 6. März in Aachen
Entwicklung von Analogschaltungen mit CAE-Methoden

Die Registrierung ist eröffnet!

Call For Papers:

Programm und Anmeldeformular:

10th IWCM Workshop Program

10th International Workshop on Compact Modeling 

January 22 (Tue), 2013 

Pacifico Yokohama, Room 419

Yokohama, Japan

Time	#	Title	Authors	Affiliation
9:00-9:10		Opening: H. J.  Mattausch (Workshop Chair)
		Power Devices   Chair: D. Navarro
9:10-9:30	1	HiSIM_HV Temperature Modeling for Multi-Geometry LDMOS: Comparison of the Temperature Flag Options	Y. Iino	Silvaco Japan
9:30-9:50	2	Analysis and Further Improvements of the Drain-Resistance Modeling in HiSIM_HV	T. Umeda et al.	Hiroshima University
9:50-10:10	3	Floating-Base Effect Modeling for IGBT Structure using Potential Modification	T. Yamamoto et al.	Denso
10:10-10:30		- Break -
		Novel FET Structures Chair: T. Nakagawa
10:30-10:50	4	Study on Dynamic Threshold Nanowire Tunnel FET	A. Zhang et al.	Peking University Shenzhen
10:50-11:10	5	A DC Model of TFETs for SPICE Simulations	L. Zhang and M. Chan	HK UST
11:10-11:30	6	A Surface Potential Based Compact Model of Organic Thin-Film Transistor for Circuit Simulation	T.K. Maiti et al.	Hiroshima University
11:30-11:40		-  Break -
		Optical and Wireless Chair: J. He
11:40-12:00	7	An Embedded Modulation of Silicon Germanium FIN-LED - A simulation study	J. Kwon et al.	Seoul National University
12:00-12:20	8	Predicting Key Parameters of Inductive Power Links	S. Raju et al.	HK UST
12:20-14:00		- Lunch Break -
		Aging and Degradation Chair: M. Miura-Mattausch
14:00-14:40	9	Invited Keynote: Interaction of Bloch Carrier and Bound State in the Reliability Modeling	Y.J. Park and S. Choi	Seoul National University
14:40-15:00	10	Development of Unified Predictive NBTI Model and its Application for Circuit Aging Simulation	C. Ma et al.	Hiroshima University, STARC
15:00-15:20	11	Effects of Nonlocal Concentration of Carriers in the Oxide for NBTI Simulation	S. Rhee et al.	Seoul National University
15:20-15:40		-  Break -
		Fabrication Variation Chair: Y. J. Park
15:40-16:00	12	Parameter Extraction for Statistical Variation of HV-MOSFETs	Y. Ueda et al.	Ricoh, STARC
16:00-16:20	13	Analysis of Gate-Length Dependence of MOSFET Random Variation by Using HiSIM-RP	S. Kumashiro et al.	Renesas Electronics
16:20-16:40	14	Random Dopant Fluctuation Effects on Double Gate Tunneling FET Performance	Y. Zhu et al.	Peking University Shenzhen
16:40-16:50		Closing: H.J. Mattausch (Workshop Chair)

QucsStudio 1.4.2

A new version of QucsStudio has just been released for general use. The latest version is mainly  bug fixes but does contain a number of new/improved features. A list of the changes are given below:

• some corrections in help system
• component names in noise contribution analysis with subcircuit prefix
• reduced time step warnings in transient analysis
• bugfix: differential voltages in equations
• in equations: allow suffix in node names
• bugfix: directory MinGW\mingw32\bin\ exists again
• bugfix: crash in diagram dialog if clicking on empty variable area
• new component: photodiode
• new equation function: stoa()
• bugfix: spaces allowed between function name and "("
• added InP permittivity in property list
• bugfix: correct text in C++ symbol string
• error message for wrong index in equation variables

This is likely to be one of the last releases in the QucsStudio 1.4 series.  Work has started on QucsStudio series 2.0.0.  QucsStudio 2.0.0 is expected to offer users significant improvements in simulation and modelling capabilities.  The first of the new releases will coincide with the tenth anniversary of the first release of Qucs next year.

QucsStudio can be downloaded from the QucsStudio homepage at http://www.mydarc.de/DD6UM/QucsStudio/qucsstudio.html

Contact: Mike Brinson