PRIDE: an integrated design environment for semiconductor device simulation

Abstract

Philips Research Integrated Device Environment (PRIDE) is a computer-aided design (CAD) system for the rapid specification and evaluation of semiconductor devices. Using a windows icons menus pointer (WIMP) based graphical user interface, the environment incorporates a diverse set of semiconductor device simulation programs into one integrated, extensible CAD framework. This framework provides a uniform interface for the engineer interested in device simulation. PRIDE is composed of three independent modules: (i) picasso, a graphical preprocessor used to input the geometry and doping profiles of a device, (ii) various simulation programs in which the semiconductor device equations are solved numerically, and (iii) prism, an interactive color graphics post-processor for the rapid display and analysis of solution results.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>