This paper presents a novel 3D thermal simulation tool for semiconductor integrated devices. The simulator is used to automatically generate an accurate 3D physical model of the device to be simulated from layout information. The simulator produces an appropriate mesh of the device based on a rectangular block structure. The mesh is automatically created such that a fine mesh is produced around...

In this paper, we proposed a 2-D analytical model for electrical characteristics such as surface potential, electric field and drain current of Silicon-on-Insulator Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (SOI TFETs) with a SiO2/High-k stacked gate-oxide structure. By using superposition principle with suitable boundary conditions, the Poisson’s equation has been solved to model the channel r...

My Ph.D. dissertation (Goel 1989)1 presents a computational model of experience-based design. It first reviews the core issues in experiencebased design, for example, (1) the content of a design experience (or case), (2) the internal organization of design cases, (3) the language for indexing the cases, (4) the mechanism for retrieving a case relevant to a given design task, (5) the mechanism f...

One method for making analogies is to access and instantiate abstract domain principles, and one method for acquiring knowledge of abstract principles is to discover them from experience. We view generalization over experiences in the absence of any prior knowledge of the target principle as the task of hypothesis formation, a subtask of discovery. Also, we view the use of the hypothesized prin...