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A Short Overview of the NEEDS Initiative
Online Presentations | 06 Jun 2016 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
The talk is a brief overview of the program that discusses the rationale, status, and plans for NEEDS.
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High-Frequency Carbon Nanotube Transistors: Fabrication, Characterization, and Compact Modeling
Online Presentations | 14 Jan 2015 | Contributor(s):: Martin Claus
The talk covers different aspects in the manufacturing of high-frequency CNTFETs, electrical device characterization and compact modeling of CNTFETs. The applicability of the semi physics-based compact model CCAM for designing digital and analog HF circuits is shown. In particular, the model...
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Basics of Compact Model Development
Online Presentations | 02 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s):: Sivakumar P Mudanai
This tutorial is aimed at developing an understanding of what a compact model is, the need and role of compact models in the semiconductor industry and the requirements that a compact model must meet for acceptable use in circuit simulations. The tutorial will use simple examples from planar...
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NEEDS Compact Model Development Process - v0.1
Online Presentations | 17 Feb 2014 | Contributor(s):: Michael McLennan
The Nano-Engineered Electronic Device Simulation (NEEDS) effort is focused on creating compact models for nanoelectronics. The process involves a new Berkeley Model Development Environment (MDE) tool (https://nanohub.org/tools/mde) and other infrastructure on nanoHUB.org. This seminar describes...
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Introduction to Compact Models and Circuit Simulation
Online Presentations | 21 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Jaijeet Roychowdhury
With NEEDS introduction by Mark Lundstrom. This talk contains a brief introduction to Verilog-A and suggests some initial guidelines for writing Verilog-A versions of NEEDS models.
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Introduction to Compact Models and Circuit Simulation
Online Presentations | 19 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Tianshi Wang, Jaijeet Roychowdhury
The presentation is a gentle introduction to compact models, basic circuit simulation concepts, and flows for developing compact models. The roadmap for the NEEDS-SPICE platform, being developed to ease the process of developing simulation-ready compact models for novel nanodevices, is briefly...
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Guidelines for Writing NEEDS-certified Verilog-A Compact Models
Online Presentations | 19 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Tianshi Wang, Jaijeet Roychowdhury
This talk contains a brief introduction to Verilog-A and suggests some initial guidelines for writing Verilog-A versions of NEEDS models. For more about the history of Verilog-A and additional guidelines for writing Verilog-A models, see the presentation by Drs. Geoffrey Coram and Colin McAndrew.
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NEEDS Introduction
Online Presentations | 19 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
NEEDS is an initiative supported by the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation with a mission to develop the critical missing link needed to transform nanoelectronic materials and device research into electronic systems – physics-based compact models for...
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Verilog-A: Present Status and Guidelines
Online Presentations | 19 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Geoffrey Coram
Verilog-A is the standard language for compact model development and implementation. This talk provides some background on the rationale for and development of Verilog-A, summarizes the current status of the language, and provides a short introduction and some tips for writing good compact...