Has anyone taken a serious look at the Silvaco models (
http://www.silvaco.com/downloads/verilogADownloads.html). If so, how do they look?
I took a careful look and the diode, and it does not seem ready for prime time. It had a couple of issues.
1. Several standard parameters are missing (eg, ibv, xti)
2. vj parameter is misnamed phi, and given wrong default value.
3. noise model is missing.
4. The current used to determine the size of the diffusion capacitance includes the current through the junction and diffusion capacitances, which it should not.
Are the other models is a similar state? If so, it would seem it indicate that Silvaco is not yet using these models as their base models.
-August