Layout – TechConnect Briefs

Discreteness and Distribution of Drain Currents in FinFETs

Lu N., IBM, US

It is likely that the characterization and modeling of a finFET will be carried out on a multi-fin structure, since it is a single electrical device functionally. Discreteness of multiple fins in a multi-fin FET [...]

Parameterized Electrostatic Gap Model for Structured Design of Microelectroelectrical Systems

Lu M.S., Fedder G.K., Carnegie Mellon University, US

VLSI system designers can begin their design process with a behavrioal description of a system, then proceed to physical design. MEMS designers typiclly begin with device design, this process is opten followed by several fabrication [...]

From Layout to System Simulation: An Example of an Oxygen Sensor

Camon H., Djafari-Rouhani M., Gué A.M., Dilhan M., Alonso C., Jammes B., LAAS/CNRS, FR

The development of microsystems has shown that the technologies and tools are mature enough to investigate the possibilities of complete CAD tools, as is the case in integrated circuit design. An oxygen sensor has been [...]

FELLINI-A CAD Tool for the Design of Microsystems

Lang M., Glesner M., Darmstadt University of Technology, DE

This paper reports of the CAD-tool FELLINI, which supports the design of microsysfems on the lower levels of abstraction. FELLINI provides a bidirectional interface between the structural and the layout level. A Layout-to-FEM converter as [...]