Monte Carlo hardware simulator for electron dynamics in semiconductors

Author

Negoi, Andy ; Zimmermann, Jacques

Author_Institution

Lab. de Phys. des Composants a Semicond., ENSERG, Grenoble, France

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

9-12 Oct 1996

Firstpage

557

Abstract

An integrated circuit dedicated to the simulation of a charged particle in a semiconductor using the Monte Carlo method is presented. This circuit should be the basis building block of a semiconductor device hardware simulator. We detail the various phases of the physical processes involved and how to transfer them in terms of circuit architectures. The CAD tool used was Alliance 3.0. We present the very first practical realization based on a FPGA

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; application specific integrated circuits; digital simulation; electrodynamics; electronic engineering computing; microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; semiconductor device models; semiconductors; special purpose computers; ASIC processor; Alliance 3.0; CAD tool; FPGA implementation; Monte Carlo hardware simulator; charged particle; circuit architectures; dedicated IC; electron dynamics; integrated circuit; semiconductor device hardware simulator; semiconductors; Algorithm design and analysis; Arithmetic; Circuits; Computational modeling; Discrete event simulation; Electron mobility; Hardware; Monte Carlo methods; Phonons; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Conference, 1996., International

Conference_Location

Sinaia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3223-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMICND.1996.557443

Filename

557443