Magma FineSim SPICE Supports STARC HiSIM Model with Proven 20x Faster Circuit Simulation and Nearly Exact Correlation to Silicon. Or so they say in their web. See the full press release for more details. However, I love one of the sentences: "STARC's mission is to contribute to the growth of the Japanese semiconductor industry by developing leading-edge system-on-a-chip (SoC) design technologies.". Well, I would think that their primary mission is creating value for they investors, but one never knows. Now seriously, it is good to see that people is beginning to provide support (or implementations) of HiSIM. I only hope that foundries will follow the path, instead of being stuck with good (well, perhaps not so much), old (yes it is) BSIM3.1. I know this is a version of many years ago, but I can promise you that I've been playing with a 120nm technology using it.
By the way, by the moment it seems that more people is implementing HiSIM than PSP... curious, isn't it?
Mar 28, 2007
Mar 27, 2007
Call for Grant applications at SRC
SRC-GRC is calling for grant applications in Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research. The role of this program is to stimulate non-traditional thinking about the issues facing the semiconductor industry. It is intended to seed new research and programs for the SRC-GRC and SRC-FCRP. Consistent with the incubator role of the initiative, these will be 1 year non-overhead bearing grants at a funding level of $40K.
The scope of this solicitation is Nanoscale CMOS-Based Architectures. The challenge: Sustaining CMOS value progression through functional scaling and system design. The deadline: may, 1st. In principle, this is not for compact models, but I think that a good proposal including compact modeling could be redacted. Why? Because new devices are required to address the challenges of the next years and there is no way to do it without good compact models. So, at least a part of a sensible proposal should include some compact modeling (if nothing more, some way to go from compact device models to compact functional models... otherwise no real achivements will be obtained but only some old techniques re-edited)
By the way, IBM India is looking for Compact Model Engineers. Have a look at their web.
The scope of this solicitation is Nanoscale CMOS-Based Architectures. The challenge: Sustaining CMOS value progression through functional scaling and system design. The deadline: may, 1st. In principle, this is not for compact models, but I think that a good proposal including compact modeling could be redacted. Why? Because new devices are required to address the challenges of the next years and there is no way to do it without good compact models. So, at least a part of a sensible proposal should include some compact modeling (if nothing more, some way to go from compact device models to compact functional models... otherwise no real achivements will be obtained but only some old techniques re-edited)
By the way, IBM India is looking for Compact Model Engineers. Have a look at their web.
Mar 23, 2007
Another blog
I've found another blog about semiconductors. It is basically about technology news, but it is quite interesting to look at. You can reach it here (by the way, the name is Semiconductor Highlights). It is not frequentely updated, but it has a long history. In any case, if any of you, dear hipothetical readers, feels like suggesting another blog, don't hesitate to post it here...
Mar 20, 2007
DCIS'07
The last call for papers has been issued for the DCIS'07. This conference has evolved from its origins, more than two decades ago, into an important international meeting for researches in the highly active fields of micro and nano electronics circuits and integrated systems. It provides an excellent forum to present and investigate the emerging challenges in modelling, design, implementation and test of circuits and systems. Experts from both industry and academia have the chance to discuss the demands and solutions for current applications. Strong scientific, technical and personal relationships have been developed in the frame of this event. Moreover, there will be at least one session dedicated to modelling. So, it is a very good opportunity to visit Sevilla!
Mar 16, 2007
MIGAS'07 Summer School will focus on Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation
The International Summer School on Advanced Microelectronics (MIGAS) has become probably the top summer school held in Europe in the field of semiconductor devices. MIGAS is organized by the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and the Center for Innovation in Micro & NanoTechnology (MINATEC). The venue is always a beautiful town or resort in the Alps close to Grenoble. This year MIGAS'07 (June 24-29) will take place in Autrans, a well-known alpine resort, offering many kind of outdoor opportunities: hiking, mountain climbing, mountain-biking,...
Every year MIGAS addresses a different topic. This year, MIGAS'07 (10th Session) will be devoted to Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation for NanoElectronics.
It is well known that traditional modeling tools are not suitable to simulate the behaviour of nanoelectronic devices. The invited lecturers will explain new methods to model nanoscale devices:
-Non-equilibrium Green's functions methods (M.P. Anantram, Waterloo, Canada)
-Ab-initio methods (X. Blase, Lyon, France)
-Wigner functions methods (P. Dollfus, Paris, France)
-Monte Carlo methods (D. Esseni, Udine, Italy)
-Kp methods (F. Michelini, Marseille, France)
-Tight-binding methods (Y.M. Niquet, Grenoble, France)
-Deterministic solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation (C. Jungemann, Munich, Germany)
In addition, there will be lectures on nanoscale device process simulation (M. Jaraiz, Valladolid, Spain), quantum transport theory (D.K. Ferry, Arizona, USA) , noise in nanoelectronics (G. Iannaccone, Pisa, Italy), and also characterisation techniques (S. Cristoloveanu, Grenoble, France) . Finally, I will conduct a lecture on the compact modeling of nanoscale MOSFETs.
No doubt MIGAS'07 will be a very interesting opportunity for students and researchers to become familiar with the new modeling methods proposed for the novel nanoelectronic devices.
Every year MIGAS addresses a different topic. This year, MIGAS'07 (10th Session) will be devoted to Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulation for NanoElectronics.
It is well known that traditional modeling tools are not suitable to simulate the behaviour of nanoelectronic devices. The invited lecturers will explain new methods to model nanoscale devices:
-Non-equilibrium Green's functions methods (M.P. Anantram, Waterloo, Canada)
-Ab-initio methods (X. Blase, Lyon, France)
-Wigner functions methods (P. Dollfus, Paris, France)
-Monte Carlo methods (D. Esseni, Udine, Italy)
-Kp methods (F. Michelini, Marseille, France)
-Tight-binding methods (Y.M. Niquet, Grenoble, France)
-Deterministic solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation (C. Jungemann, Munich, Germany)
In addition, there will be lectures on nanoscale device process simulation (M. Jaraiz, Valladolid, Spain), quantum transport theory (D.K. Ferry, Arizona, USA) , noise in nanoelectronics (G. Iannaccone, Pisa, Italy), and also characterisation techniques (S. Cristoloveanu, Grenoble, France) . Finally, I will conduct a lecture on the compact modeling of nanoscale MOSFETs.
No doubt MIGAS'07 will be a very interesting opportunity for students and researchers to become familiar with the new modeling methods proposed for the novel nanoelectronic devices.
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