Standardization of the compact model coding: non-fully depleted SOI MOSFET example, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2005, nr 1

The initiative to standardize compact (SPICE-like) modelling has recently gained momentum in the semiconductor industry. Some of the important issues of the compact modelling must be addressed, such as accuracy, testing, availability, version control, verification and validation. Most compact models developed in the past did not account for these key issues which are of highest importance when introducing a new compact model to the semiconductor industry in particular going beyond the ITRS roadmap technological 100 nm node. An important application for non-fully depleted SOI technology is high performance microprocessors, other high speed logic chips, as well as analogue RF circuits. The IC design process requires a compact model that describes in detail the electrical characteristics of SOI MOSFET transistors. In this paper a non-fully depleted SOI MOSFET model and its Verilog-AMS description will be presented

Advanced compact modeling of the deep submicron technologies, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2000, nr 3,4

The technology of CMOS large-scale integrated circuits (LSI’s) achieved remarkable advances over last 25 year and the progress is expected to continue well into the next century. The progress has been driven by the downsizing of the active devices such as MOSFETs. Approaching these dimensions, MOSFET characteristics cannot be accurately predicted using classical modeling methods currently used in the most common MOSFET models such as BSIM, MM9 etc, without introducing large number of empirical parameters. Various physical effects that needed to be considered while modeling UDSM devices: quantization of the inversion layer, mobility degradation, carrier velocity saturation and overshoot, polydepletion effects, bias dependent source/drain resistances and capacitances, vertical and lateral doping profiles, etc. In this paper, we will discuss the progress in the CMOS technology and the anticipated difficulties of the sub-0.25 mm LSI downsizing. Subsequently, basic MOSFET modeling methodologies that are more appropriate for UDSM MOSFETs will be presented as well. The advances in compact MOSFET devices will be illustrated using application examples of the EPFL EKV model

FOSS EKV2.6 Verilog-A compact MOSFET model

Summarization: The EKV2.6 MOSFET compact model has had a considerable impact on the academic and industrial community of analog integrated circuit design, since its inception in 1996. The model is available as a free open-source software (FOSS) tool coded in Verilog-A. The present paper provides a short review of foundations of the model and shows its capabilities via characterization and modeling based on a test chip in 180 nm CMOS fabricated via Europractice.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: 49th European Solid-State Device Research Conferenc