How to (and how not to) write a compact model in Verilog-A

BMAS 2004 - Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 97-106

  Coram, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a ANALOG DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE, VERILOG-A; LANGUAGE REFERENCE MODEL (LRM); VERILOG-AMS HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE;

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOSFET DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SIMULATORS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 15944393999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. http://www.eigroup.org/cmc/
2. Verilog-AMS Language Reference Manual, version 2.2, Accellera, 2004.
3. http://www.accellera.org
4. L. Lemaitre, et. al., "Extensions to Verilog-AMS to Support Compact Device Modeling," Proc. 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation (BMAS 2003), San Jose, CA.
5. K.S. Kundert and O. Zinke, The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS, Boston: Kluver Academic Publishers, 2004.
6. A few models, including the Philips MOS11 MOSFET transistor model, are available from http://www.designers-guide.com/VerilogAMS/ The Philips Mextram 504 bipolar transistor model is available at http://ectm.et.tudelft.nl/data/ artwork/design/ code/ahdl/mextram.va Silvaco International has some Verilog-A models available for "non-commercial use" for registered users at https://src.silvaco.com/ ResourceCenter/en/downloads/verilogA.jsp
7. BSIM3 (version 3.2.4) source code from the University of California, Berkeley. Available from http://www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bsim3/
8. Spice3f4 source code from the University of California, Berkeley. Available through anonymous FTP to ic.eecs.berkeley.edu in the subdirectory pub/Spice3/or by contacting software@eecs.berkeley.edu. The value is found in the file src/lib/fte/cpitf.c
9. http://physics.nist.gov/constants and specifically http://physics.nist. gov/cuu/Constants/Table/allascii.txt
10. S.M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd. ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981.
11. P. Yang, et. al., "An Investigation of the Charge Conservation Problem for MOSFET Circuit Simulation," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. SC-18, Feb. 1983.
12. K.S. Kundert, The Designer's Guide to SPICE and Spectre, Boston: Kluver Academic Publishers, 1995.