Hot carrier effect "HCI" in CMOS_FET Transistors

[bOB]

Hi everybody,

Any body familiar with "HCI simulator tool" like "HOTRON" or "BERT"
or something similar?

Due to my work I need information about the model functions that they
work based on that!

could some one help?

Thanks and looking forward to hear about it,

Best regards,
Bob

 

[Jim Thompson]

Hi everybody,

Any body familiar with "HCI simulator tool" like "HOTRON" or "BERT"
or something similar?

Due to my work I need information about the model functions that they
work based on that!

could some one help?

Thanks and looking forward to hear about it,

Best regards,
Bob

I'm not familiar with the tools you mention. But the foundries I work
with specify the SOA regions, and I just write my own macros in PSpice
to view the device SOA's in Probe.

...Jim Thompson

 

[bOB]

Jim,

Do you have for your macro also a model function which relate
degradation indicator (usually Isub, and/or Ig) to Age with some
parameters, which is my favorite point?

 

[Jim Thompson]

Jim,

Do you have for your macro also a model function which relate
degradation indicator (usually Isub, and/or Ig) to Age with some
parameters, which is my favorite point?

No. I'm in the circuit design arena, and all I have in macros simply
reflect the foundry's restrictions for hot electron SOA.

For example...

SOAG(M,VDS,VGS)=(SGN(VD(M)-VS(M)-VDS)+1)*(SGN(VG(M)-VS(M)-VGS)+1)/4

which produces a "1" if rules are violated, "0" otherwise (IIRC ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[bOB]

Thanks,

But I still need a documentation of a simulating tool in HCI, to know
how it works. Then should implement it in SABER or other design and
simulation tool, my work is about deep submicron NMOS!

brgrds

 

[Jim Thompson]

Thanks,

But I still need a documentation of a simulating tool in HCI, to know
how it works. Then should implement it in SABER or other design and
simulation tool, my work is about deep submicron NMOS!

brgrds

I believe full-flavored Cadence has it. IIRC, it was a Cadence
seminar I went to where I figured out how to do the same thing on a
(relatively) cheap tool.

...Jim Thompson