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VWF Interactive Tools Tutorial

Cross Section Simulation of an n+/p+ region of an IC

This tutorial document will introduce you to process and device simulation using the Silvaco VWF interactive tools. It is assumed that you are familiar with basic concepts of Silicon device processing and the basic operation of MOS transistors.

Each on-line page of this tutorial begins and ends with hypertext links to this page (the index page), the overview page for the topic currently being covered in the tutorial and the next page of the tutorial. You may use these links to move through the tutorial.

There are several links through out the tutorial to related topics which may be followed if the topic is of particular interest to you.

This tutorial is organized into the following broad topics:

Table of Contents (this page)
About Silvaco Data Systems, Inc.
  1. Getting Started: covering invoking DeckBuild, the master application of the VWF Interactive Tools, and loading an example input deck.
  2. Process Simulation: covering the simulation of a simple LDD MOS process using Silvaco's Athena process simulator.
  3. Device Simulation: covering MOS transistor device simulation to extract the device parameters Vt, Beta and Theta using Silvaco's device simulator Atlas.

Comments and Suggestions

Comments or suggestions relating to this tutorial are welcome and should be sent to support@silvaco.com.


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