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Device Simulation for Smart Integrated Systems

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The aims of DESSIS are to:

- enhance the set of tools currently available to the smart-power system designer by making device-level and mixed-mode circuit/device simulation feasible within the circuit design environment
- enhance currently available 3-D device simulation codes to account for all the physical mechanisms important for the operation of EPROM and flash EEPROM memory devices.
Circuit and device equations have been merged, so that power devices can be simulated within their circuit environment, with the appropriate dimensionality required by their geometrical structure. To date, the simulation code SIMUL handles multiple 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional devices within the same circuit, as well as SPICE-like device models for both passive and active components. SIMUL supports both direct current (DC) and time dependent circuit analyses with no restriction on circuit topology, thus making it possible to simulate the switching behaviour of complex power devices, accounting for the input driving, as well as the output load and clamping circuitry. SIMUL's physical model supports the heat flow equation in addition to the drift diffusion model of current transport; hence, the influence of device self heating is fully accounted for.

Physical level multidimensional device analysis tools suitable for power and floating gate device simulations have been developed. To this purpose, the hydrodynamic model of current transport in semiconductors and the heat flow equation have been implemented within the 3-dimensional simulator HFIELDS, thus allowing for a very general energy transport model which overcomes previous simplifying assumptions such as that of a local thermal equilibrium between lattice and carriers, or that of an isothermal lattice. The code currently supports the Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling mechanism across the gate oxide, while the implementation of the band to band tunnelling is scheduled in the near future. Finally, hot electron and hot hole injection into the gate of erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) and electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) cells will be supported.
These goals are being pursued by:

- Merging circuit/device equations, so that power devices can be simulated within their circuit environment, with the appropriate dimensionality required by their geometrical structure. To date, the simulation code SIMUL handles multiple 1-D, 2-D and 3-D devices within the same circuit, as well as SPICE-like device models for both passive and active components. SIMUL supports both D.C. and time-dependent circuit analyses with no restriction on circuit topology, thus making it possible to simulate the switching behaviour of complex power devices, such as IGBTs or GTOs, accounting for the input driving, as well as the output load and clamping circuitry. SIMUL's physical model supports the heat-flow equation in addition to the drift-diffusion model of current transport: hence, the influence of device self-heating is fully accounted for.

- Developing physical-level multi-dimensional device analysis tools suitable for power- and floating-gate-device simulations. To this purpose, the hydrodynamic model of current transport in semiconductors and the heat-flow equation have been implemented within the 3-D simulator HFIELDS, thus allowing for a very general energy-transport model which overcomes previous simplifying assumptions such as that of a local thermal equilibrium between lattice and carriers, or that of an isothermal lattice. The code currently supports the Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling mechanism across the gate oxide, while the implementation of the band-to-band tunnelling is scheduled in the near future. Finally, hot-electron and hot-hole injection into the gate of EPROM and EEPROM cells will be supported.

- Developing a common User's Simulation Environment (USE) for user-friendly structure definition and mesh generation. The latter will conform to international standards and rely upon a general Standard Process Representation (SPR) and Standard Wafer Representation (SWP). Both SIMUL and HFIELDS will be supported by USE; thus, tool integration will fully be achieved within the DESSIS Project. Also, interface with process-modelling tools to be developed and/or enhanced within the PROMPT Project will be pursued, with the aim of generating a state-of-the-art TCAD simulation environment.

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Letzte Aktualisierung: 17 Juni 1994

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