10. July 2022

From Days to Minutes: Cut Simulation Time in DTCO

Precise Parasitics and SPICE model card extraction allow to combine TCAD with SPICE, significantly reducing simulation runtimes and memory requirements. Simulation of large cells and variability studies become a snap.

Comparing Full TCAD (days) versus TCAD-to-SPICE (minutes) of simulation runtimes for full-cell DTCO
100 to 1000 times faster results using GTS’ combined TCAD-to-SPICE DTCO flow

Same Accuracy, 100-1000 Times Faster

Run Full-Cell Variability Studies in a Snap

Design technology co-optimization (DTCO) is straight forward in a TCAD tool-chain, but the required simulations consumed a lot of CPU time and a huge amount of memory in case of large cells – a problem in particular for variability studies. The presented tool flow combines the accuracy of TCAD with the performance of SPICE simulations. Key to this hybrid approach are accurate TCAD parasitics extraction (PEX) and SPICE transistor model card extraction.

Join our Poster Session at DAC 2022, See the Benefits

GTS Scientists Gerhard Rzepa and José María González Medina will be happy to show you how it works, and discuss the benefits that you can get from this combined DTCO flow.

DAC 2022 – July 10-14, San Francisco

Poster Session: Path-Finding Through Variability-Aware DTCO-Flow, Wed, July 13th, 5pm – 6pm PDT, Level 2, Exhibit Hall

Let’s talk at the GTS Booth: booth 2420

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