FEAT - A Simulation Tool for Electrothermal Analysis of Multifinger Bipolar Transistors

Author

La Spina, L. ; Nenadovic, N. ; d´Alessandro, Vincenzo ; Nanver, L.K. ; Rinaldi, N.

Author_Institution

Lab. of ECTM, Delft Univ. of Technol.

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

879

Lastpage

882

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new simulation tool, which can be effectively adopted for the electrothermal analysis of multifinger bipolar transistors. The program is based on an optimized procedure for solving the nonlinear system of equations governing the electrothermal device behavior. Features like model accuracy, short computation time, flexibility, and user friendliness make the proposed software a good candidate for optimizing both reliability and performance of modern transistors with complex layouts

Keywords

bipolar transistors; electronic engineering computing; nonlinear equations; electrothermal device behavior; electrothermal simulation tool; fast electrothermal analysis; multifinger bipolar transistor; nonlinear equation system; Analytical models; Bipolar transistors; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Electrothermal effects; Fingers; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear systems; Temperature dependence; Voltage; Bipolar transistor; electrothermal effects; electrothermal simulation tools; reliability; thermal design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer as a Tool, 2005. EUROCON 2005.The International Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0049-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2005.1630075

Filename

1630075