Hi all,

I have a question to ask you, that is, you know when I am using Cadence, in Analog Artist, there is a Temperature opition in Setup, what I wanna know is this Temperature is what kind of temperature, is it the environment temperature where the die is operating, or something else?

Regards,
Terry

I think it's the temperature of the environment, but you have to consider that the die will probably work at higher temperature, so usually you can consider this temperature as the die temperature (otherwise you will need some transistor models that can include self-heating).
qiushidaren wrote on Mar 9^th, 2007, 12:40am:

The temperature of a particular device k is
    t_k = temp + trise_k
where temp is global and trise_k applies only to the particular device.  With integrated circuits, one generally uses temp to represent the average die temperature and trise_k to represent the deviation of the device temperature from the average. In most cases the individual device temperature is not important, so trise is not used.


-Ken