N. Rostand, S. Martinie, J. Lacord, O. Rozeau, O. Billoint, J. Barbe, T. Poiroux, G. Hubert
{"title":"Compact Modelling of Single Event Transient in Bulk MOSFET for SPICE: Application to Elementary Circuit","authors":"N. Rostand, S. Martinie, J. Lacord, O. Rozeau, O. Billoint, J. Barbe, T. Poiroux, G. Hubert","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551633","url":null,"abstract":"Single Event Transients (SET) are important issues concerning reliability of CMOS circuits. They lead to occurrence of soft errors in integrated circuits, such as Single Event Upset (SEU) which consists in unexpected bit state switch in SRAM cells [1], [2]. We can find models which describe SET in literature [1], [5] but they are not compact (i e. physical model implemented in Verilog-A). In previous work [6], we proposed a theoretical SET model but the implementation in Verilog-A was still challenging. Here, we describe the implementation in Verilog-A of this model and use it through standard SPICE simulations to study the effect of SET on SRAM cell and shift register.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123922363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methodology to Generate Approximate Circuits to Reduce Process Induced Degradation in CNFET Based Circuits","authors":"K. Sheikh, Lan Wei","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551713","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic methodology is presented to generate approximate circuits with fewer nodes and shorter paths to reduce process induced degradation due to imperfect process in emerging technologies such as CNFET. In a 16-bit CNFET adder example, at PCNTopen =5%, two resulted approximate adders achieve 80.5% and 90.2% circuit-level pass rate with a penalty of 3.3% and 24.0% in relative logic error, respectively, in comparison with 12.5% pass rate for the precision counterpart. The study paves the path to practically utilize such technology for error-resilient applications.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125239976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Duarte, Y.-K. Lin, Y. Liao, A. Sachid, M. Kao, H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, K. Chatterjee, D. Kwon, H.-L. Chang, S. Salahuddin, C. Hu
{"title":"Negative-Capacitance FinFETs: Numerical Simulation, Compact Modeling and Circuit Evaluation","authors":"J. Duarte, Y.-K. Lin, Y. Liao, A. Sachid, M. Kao, H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, K. Chatterjee, D. Kwon, H.-L. Chang, S. Salahuddin, C. Hu","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551641","url":null,"abstract":"A complete simulation framework is presented for Negative Capacitance FinFETs including Numerical Simulation, Compact Modeling, and Circuit Evaluation. A 2D Numerical Simulation for FinFETs coupled with the Landau’s Ferroelectric Model captures device characteristics. A new version of the distributed Negative-Capacitance FinFET Compact Model is also presented in this work, where influence of short-channel effects in Ferroelectric voltage amplification are newly incorporated. Finally, a detailed analysis, from an energy perspective, is presented for the gate voltage amplification of Negative Capacitance FinFETs in ring-oscillator circuits.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125870968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nianduan Lu, Wei Wei, X. Chuai, Yuhan Mei, Ling Li, Ming Liu
{"title":"Investigation of adsorbed small-molecule on boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) based on first-principles calculations","authors":"Nianduan Lu, Wei Wei, X. Chuai, Yuhan Mei, Ling Li, Ming Liu","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551709","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the first-principles calculations, we have investigated the structure and electronic property of adsorbed small-molecules on boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). It is found thatthe sites of LUMO and HOMO would be changed after BNNTs absorbed the different small moleculesThe energy gap of BNNTs decreases with increasing the distance between small molecule and BNNTThe adsorption effect of BNNT will be optimal as the distance between the small molecule and BNNT is from 1 to 1.5 Å. The potential application of BNNT as highly sensitive gas sensor for N-based small molecules has also been discussed.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130266986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiscale Modeling of Ferroelectric Memories: Insights into Performances and Reliability","authors":"Milan Pešiü, V. D. Lecce, D. Pramanik, L. Larcher","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551722","url":null,"abstract":"Despite large efforts in research of HfO2-based ferroelectric (FE) random access memories (FRAM), mechanisms underlying the device behavior of and its reliability (premature degradation) are poorly understood. To tackle this issue, we used a multiscale modeling framework that allows investigating the interplay between the FE switching, defects and polycrystalline nature of the HfO2 material. This multiscale model allows connecting the electrical performances of FE devices (e.g. switching) to the atomic material properties, including defects and morphology (e.g. material phase). We used this simulation platform to both study wake-up process and the device-to-device variability in different memory architectures, i.e. capacitor-based FRAM and ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) and the ferroelectric FET (FeFET) subjected to high field program/erase stress.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129664477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Martinie, O. Rozeau, T. Poiroux, J. Barbe, F. Gilibert, X. Montagner, Salim El Ghouli, A. Juge, D. J. Geert Smit, A. Scholten
{"title":"New physical insight for analog application in PSP bulk compact model","authors":"S. Martinie, O. Rozeau, T. Poiroux, J. Barbe, F. Gilibert, X. Montagner, Salim El Ghouli, A. Juge, D. J. Geert Smit, A. Scholten","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551712","url":null,"abstract":"With the maturity of CMOS technologies and their use for low voltage analog applications, some additional parasitic effects must be modeled to improve again the accuracy of SPICE models. Indeed, with the decrease of supply voltage, devices operate close to the weak inversion, where some effects such as parasitic sidewall transistor, also called hump effect [1], and the interface states effect [2], can have a significant impact on the model accuracy. This paper describes the latest significant improvements of PSP model related to version 103.6 including new compact models of parasitic MOSFET and interface states. The major challenge is to provide accurate solutions with a low impact on CPU times for large analog circuit designs. The model extensions are validated against Silicon experiments from devices with channel length down to 40nm, and including low voltage and body bias operation.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121947916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Medina-Bailón, C. Sampedro, J. Padilla, A. Godoy, L. Donetti, V. Georgiev, F. Gámiz, A. Asenov
{"title":"Impact of Strain on S/D tunneling in FinFETs: a MS-EMC study","authors":"C. Medina-Bailón, C. Sampedro, J. Padilla, A. Godoy, L. Donetti, V. Georgiev, F. Gámiz, A. Asenov","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551707","url":null,"abstract":"As device dimensions are scaled down, the use of strained channels as performance booster becomes of special relevance. Moreover, the inclusion of quantum effects in the transport direction is imperative to predict the performance of future transistors. In particular, Source-to-Drain tunneling (S/D tunneling) is presented as a scaling limit in sub-10nm nodes. In this work, a Multi-Subband Ensemble Monte Carlo (MS-EMC) study of the impact of S/D tunneling in relaxed and biaxially strained channel FinFETs is presented.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126822338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. T. Wakam, J. Lacord, M. Bawedin, S. Martinie, S. Cristoloveanu, J. Barbe
{"title":"Evidence of fast and low-voltage A2RAM ‘1’ state programming","authors":"F. T. Wakam, J. Lacord, M. Bawedin, S. Martinie, S. Cristoloveanu, J. Barbe","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551653","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time, we demonstrate a new concept for programming the ‘1’ state in A2RAM based on the impact ionization in the bridge, which can be assisted by the band-to-band tunneling effect in the top part of the silicon film. This new programming method reduces the programming voltage and writing time, making the A2RAM suitable as 1T-DRAM. Evidenced through TCAD simulation, the feasibility in matrix environment is also demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127490626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
U. Kwon, T. Okagaki, Young-seok Song, Sungyeol Kim, Yohan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, A. Kim, Saetbyeol Ahn, Jihye Shin, Yonghee Park, Jongchol Kim, D. Kim, Weiyi Qi, Yang Lu, Nuo Xu, Hong-hyun Park, J. Wang, W. Choi
{"title":"Intelligent DTCO (iDTCO) for next generation logic path-finding","authors":"U. Kwon, T. Okagaki, Young-seok Song, Sungyeol Kim, Yohan Kim, Minkyoung Kim, A. Kim, Saetbyeol Ahn, Jihye Shin, Yonghee Park, Jongchol Kim, D. Kim, Weiyi Qi, Yang Lu, Nuo Xu, Hong-hyun Park, J. Wang, W. Choi","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551723","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent design technology co-optimization (iDTCO) methodology for next generation logic architecture pathfinding and its application results are presented in this paper. There are 2 major steps in our iDTCO framework; standard cell (STC)-level iDTCO and block-level iDTCO. STC-level iDTCO, the main focus of this paper, consists of 4 major components; (1) full 3D process emulation with litho contour of standard cell (STC) layout, (2) auto-extraction of transistor compact model & parasitic RC extraction (PEX) in 3D, (3) performance-power-yield (PPY) analyzer, (4) multi-objective optimization of layout & process assumption (PA) to get best PPY. Applying our STC-level iDTCO flow to logic arch pathfinding, we could speed up our PPY analysis TAT by 5$sim$10 times with good accuracy of >95%.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129033122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Matagne, H. Nakamura, M. Kim, Y. Kikuchi, T. Huynh-Bao, Z. Tao, W. Li, K. Devriendt, L. Ragnarsson, J. Boemmels, A. Mallik, E. Altamirano-Sachez, F. Sebaai, C. Lorant, N. Jourdan, C. Porret, D. Mocuta, N. Harada, F. Masuoka
{"title":"DTCO and TCAD for a 12 Layer-EUV Ultra-Scaled Surrounding Gate Transistor 6T-SRAM","authors":"P. Matagne, H. Nakamura, M. Kim, Y. Kikuchi, T. Huynh-Bao, Z. Tao, W. Li, K. Devriendt, L. Ragnarsson, J. Boemmels, A. Mallik, E. Altamirano-Sachez, F. Sebaai, C. Lorant, N. Jourdan, C. Porret, D. Mocuta, N. Harada, F. Masuoka","doi":"10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SISPAD.2018.8551632","url":null,"abstract":"A flow, module steps and key structural elements enabling a surrounding gate transistor (SGT) based 6T-SRAM with 50nm pillar pitch and 0.0205 um2 are presented, with emphasis on process challenges and innovations. A new DTCO/TCAD methodology is used to explore the design space, demonstrate the bit cell functionality and optimize the process. In particular, it is shown that vertical SGT are extremely sensitive to gate misalignment and that buried bottom contact makes the process immune to doping variations and misalignments.","PeriodicalId":170070,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132030137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}