Development of a silicon BJT integrated circuit chip performance simulator

For integrated circuit chips based on the silicon bipolar junction transistor (BJT) technology, computer efficient models of the various chip performance indicators have been developed and a user-friendly computer program called “BCHIPSIM” suitable for the simulation of the chip performance indicators for a microprocessor or a gate-array chip has been developed. In addition to predicting the various chip performance indicators such as its maximum clock frequency, power consumption, computational capacity, power efficiency, fabrication yield, functional throughput rate and the size of the chip with the given technology parameters, the program has also been used to simulate the dependences the various chip performance indicators on the technology feature sizes in the range 0.1-5 μm and the chip integration levels in the range 100-1,000,000 logic gates on the chip