A proposed information model for device simulation based on semiconductor wafer representation

Author

El-Banna, M. ; Yousry, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Alexandria Univ., Egypt

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

27-30 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

1319

Abstract

Sophistication and complexity of technology CAD (TCAD) tools have greatly been increased in the last two decades. Data files were used to integrate existing tools, which do not provide the benefits of code-reuse. To solve date files problems an object-oriented client-server approach stemmed during the last decade. Semiconductor wafer representation (SWR) is a standard OO model. In this paper an information model based on SWR is proposed. Geometry and grid servers are defined and implemented. A modified adaptive refinement algorithm using the quadtree structure is used to generate a boundary-conformal mesh.

Keywords

circuit CAD; integrated circuit modelling; object-oriented programming; quadtrees; boundary-conformal mesh; device simulation; grid servers; information model; modified adaptive refinement algorithm; object-oriented client-server approach; quadtree structure; semiconductor wafer representation; technology CAD; Application software; Circuit simulation; Information geometry; Material properties; Mesh generation; Object oriented modeling; Predictive models; Semiconductor device modeling; Software tools; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2003 IEEE 46th Midwest Symposium on

ISSN

1548-3746

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8294-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2003.1562538

Filename

1562538