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Title: Model QA Post by ayow on Mar 2nd, 2006, 5:43pm I would like to build up an in-house model QA ability for my Lab. The model issues we usually have are in-continuity, difficult convergence and in-accurate in some W/L region..etc. Could anyone share your idea about model QA process ? Thanks a lot. Ayow |
Title: Re: Model QA Post by Paulin on Jun 9th, 2006, 2:56pm Hi, Some modeling tool like BSIMPro+ from Cadence, has the capbility to automatically Q/A the model. If you want to see some documentation regarding compact model Q/A, you could visit www.eigroup.com/cmc Hope this help! Paulin |
Title: Re: Model QA Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Jun 12th, 2006, 3:38am I've heard some people talk about a program called MQA (model QA) from Accelicon. http://www.accelicon.com/mqa.html |
Title: Re: Model QA Post by loose-electron on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:36pm MQA automates a lot of the hand check stuff, but I was not super impressed. They had a booth at DAC this year. Here are a list of common model problems: http://www.effectiveelectrons.com/foundrymodels.html Read the list down under the foundry model audit stuff. That is a list I developed from one pass at a single CMOS (it was 0.13 ) foundry. IBM, Jazz, TI, National, ST Micro get their models right, :) the rest of the world can be debated. :-/ Lots of issues as you can see. Jerry |
Title: Re: Model QA Post by Fred_Lai on Aug 23rd, 2006, 6:35am In addition to MQA, there is another well-prove SPICE compact model diagnosis tool after modeling. Its name is ModeLoo developed by SeveTek Inc. in Taiwan. (www.sevetek.com) I suggest you could try to contact with them for further information if interested. |
Title: Re: Model QA Post by loose-electron on Aug 23rd, 2006, 8:39am Also, if you are on a particular foundry, post it here and people can give feedback on the model quality. Here is my "poke and sniff" method: http://www.chipdesignmag.com/display.php?articleId=438&issueId=16 That approach is not rocket science, but more common sense than anything. Jerry |
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