ADMS-automatic device model synthesizer

Author

Lemaitre, Laurent ; McAndrew, Colin ; Hamm, Steve

Author_Institution

Semicond. Products Sector, Motorola Inc., Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

30

Abstract

This paper presents ADMS, a new open-source tool that supports automatic synthesis of compact models into circuit simulators. ADMS takes as input Verilog-AMS compact model descriptions and generates C code that conforms to circuit simulator interfaces. ADMS supports the simulators Mica, Spectre, and HSIM, and has been used to implement the SP and SSIM MOSFET models, the VBIC BJT model, and the R3 resistor model, the last two including self-heating.

Keywords

MOSFET; bipolar transistors; circuit simulation; electronic engineering computing; semiconductor device models; ADMS open-source tool; C code generation; HSIM; Mica; R3 resistor model; SP MOSFET model; SSIM MOSFET model; Spectre; VBIC BJT model; Verilog-AMS model descriptions; automatic device model synthesizer; automatic synthesis; circuit simulators; compact models; self-heating; Add-drop multiplexers; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Hardware design languages; MOSFET circuits; Open source software; Resistors; Synthesizers; Testing; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the IEEE 2002

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2002.1012760

Filename

1012760