Though the importance of CAD increases, the analog circuit design is still mostly done by experience. It is known that this is because of insufficient model quality, or quality of extracted parameter values. We have developed a new MOSFET model based on the drift-diffusion approximation. By comparing a conventional piece-wise model with our precise model, critical shortage of the conventional m...

Today Technology CAD (TCAD) tools are essential to the development of modern Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication processes. They are as well, required in the design/ optimization of very detailed and critical circuits related to a given IC process, where the usual higher level tools in Electronic Design CAD (ECAD) frameworks do not exhibit the precision or the features required. The boundary be...

| We propose an FPGA architecture for next generation B-ISDN telecommunications systems. Such a system requires an FPGA in which an over 10K gates circuit can be implemented and that has a clock cycle rate of 80MHz. While the FPGA architecture has been discussed in terms of its circuit structure, we consider the circuit structure of the FPGA with its CAD tools. We evaluate several FPGA logic-el...

A simple, efficient CAD-oriented equivalent circuit modeling approach of frequency-dependent behavior of substrate noise coupling is presented. It is shown that the substrate exhibits significant frequency-dependent characteristics for high frequency applications using epitaxial layers on a highly doped substrate. Using the proposed modeling approach, circuit topographies consisting of only ide...

Design automation or computer-aided design (CAD) for microelectronic circuits has emerged since the creation of integrated circuits (IC). It has played a crucial role to enable the rapid development of hardware and software systems in the past several decades. CAD techniques are the key driving forces behind the reduction of circuit design time and the optimization of circuit quality. Meanwhile...

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) research became more and more important during the last decades. The FPGA technology is being used in many fields and offers the main features scalability, flexibility and the low costs of prototyping. The functionality of FPGA devices is developed using hardware description languages such as Verilog. Those descriptions are translated to boolean circuits whi...

Electromigration failure is a major reliability concern for integrated circuits. The continuous shrinking of metal line dimensions together with the interconnect structure arranged in many levels of wiring with thousands of interlevel connections, such as vias, make the metallization structure more susceptible to failure. Mathematical modeling of electromigration has become an important tool fo...

Device and circuit simulations using process/physics-based Technology CAD tools are done to project the scaled CMOS speed-performance enhancement that can be expected from process-induced strained-Si CMOS.

and easily expandable for higher level synthesis. 2. KANSYS analog synthesis framework A CAD tool for the synthesis of analog circuits has been developed. The approach adopted is top down, knowledge intensive hierarchical design. A flattened view of the design is not however lost sight of and design knowledge over various levels of hierarchy is also used to achieve desimble performance. Practic...