Description
Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design: Conventional Transistors and Beyond provides a modern treatise on compact models for circuit computer-aided design (CAD). Written by an author with more than 25 years of industry experience in semiconductor processes, devices, and circuit CAD, and more than 10 years of academic experience in teaching compact modeling courses, this first-of-its-kind book on compact SPICE models for very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) chip design offers a balanced presentation of compact modeling crucial for addressing current modeling challenges and understanding new models for emerging devices.
Starting from basic semiconductor physics and covering state-of-the-art device regimes from conventional micron to nanometer, this text:
- Presents industry standard models for bipolar-junction transistors (BJTs), metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect-transistors (FETs), FinFETs, and tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs), along with statistical MOS models
- Discusses the major issue of process variability, which severely impacts device and circuit performance in advanced technologies and requires statistical compact models
- Promotes further research of the evolution and development of compact models for VLSI circuit design and analysis
- Supplies fundamental and practical knowledge necessary for efficient integrated circuit (IC) design using nanoscale devices
- Includes exercise problems at the end of each chapter and extensive references at the end of the book
Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design: Conventional Transistors and Beyond is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical and electronics engineering as well as for researchers and practitioners working in the area of electron devices. However, even those unfamiliar with semiconductor physics gain a solid grasp of compact modeling concepts from this book.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Compact Models
Compact Models for Circuit Simulation
Brief History of Compact Device Modeling
Motivation for Compact Modeling
Compact Model Usage
Compact Model Standardization
Summary
Exercises
Review of Basic Device Physics
Introduction
Semiconductor Physics
Theory of n-Type and p-Type Semiconductors in Contact
Summary
Exercises
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor System
Introduction
MOS Capacitor at Equilibrium
MOS Capacitor under Applied Bias
MOS Capacitor Theory
Capacitance of MOS Structure
Summary
Exercises
Large Geometry MOSFET Compact Models
Introduction
Overview of MOSFET Devices
MOSFET Threshold Voltage Model
MOSFET Drain Current Model
Summary
Exercises
Compact Models for Small Geometry MOSFETs
Introduction
Threshold Voltage Model
Drain Current Model
Substrate Current Model
Summary
Exercises
MOSFET Capacitance Models
Introduction
Basic MOSFET Capacitance Model
Charge-Based Capacitance Model
Gate Overlap Capacitance Model
Limitations of the Quasistatic Model
S/D pn-Junction Capacitance Model
Summary
Exercises
Compact MOSFET Models for RF Applications
Introduction
MOSFET Noise Models
NQS Effect
Modeling Parasitic Elements for RF Applications
Summary
Exercises
Modeling Process Variability in Scaled MOSFETs
Introduction
Sources of Front-End Process Variability
Characterization of Parametric Variability in MOSFETs
Conventional Process Variability Modeling for Circuit CAD
Statistical Compact Modeling
Mitigation of the Risk of Process Variability in VLSI Circuit Performance
Summary
Exercises
Compact Models for Ultrathin Body FETs
Introduction
Multigate Device Structures
Common Multiple-Gate FinFET Model
Independent Multiple-Gate FET Model
Dynamic Model
Summary
Exercises
Beyond-CMOS Transistor Models: Tunnel FETs
Introduction
Basic Features of TFETs
Basic Theory of TFET Operation
TFET Design Considerations
Compact TFET Models
Summary
Exercises
Bipolar Junction Transistor Compact Models
Introduction
Basic Features of BJTs
Basic Operation of BJTs
Mode of Operations of BJTs
Compact BJT Model
Summary
Exercises
Compact Model Library for Circuit Simulation
Introduction
General Approach to Generate Compact Device Model
Model Usage
Summary
Sample Model Cards
