The Nano-Tera Workshop on the Next Generation Compact Models

Wladyslaw Grabinski of EPFL/STI/IEL/NANOLAB , expert in Compact Modeling, Verilog-A Standardization, 2/3D TCAD Simulations

Adrian Ionescu of EPFL/STI/IEL/NANOLAB, expert in Nanowire GAA FET fabrication platform-local strain technology-abrupt switch concepts. concept-modelling and fabrication

Jean-Michel Sallèse of EPFL/STI/STI-DEC/GR-SCI , expert in modeling solid state electron devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems.

The design of integrated circuits strongly relies on the accuracy of the compact models available in the circuit simulators. In this perspective the BSIM group recently proposed the BSIM6 as a new compact model to eventually replace BSIM3, BSIM4 and PSP for next generation bulk CMOS processes.

Since BSIM6 is a charge-based model, it uses many of the features that were initially proposed by the EKV charge-based model and particularly its most recent version. Trying to take advantage of the EKV and new BSIM6 similarities, the BSIM research team from University of California, Berkeley, led by Prof. Chenming Hu and the EKV modeling team at EPFL, led by Prof. Christian Enz, decided to collaborate and jointly develop the new BSIM6 compact model. The BSIM EKV partnership has been officially announced by Profs. Hu and Enz at last ESSDERC-ESSIRC Conference during the MOS-AK Workshop.

The BSIM EKV public workshop will convene all the BSIM and EKV researchers as well as the experts from the industry to contribute to the workshop to give an update on the latest status of BSIM6 and EKV (and eventually other models as well) to the modeling and designer community. The event will be followed by an internal workshop reserved to the BSIM and EKV teams for discussion and preparation of a workplan for the next year.

More details are available on the EKV website.

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