Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design

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Introduction to Compact Models

1.1    Compact Models for Circuit Simulation

Compact models of a circuit element are simple mathematical descriptions of the behavior of that circuit element, which are used for computer-aided design (CAD) and analysis of integrated circuits (ICs). Compact models describe the device characteristics of a manufacturing technology by a set of physics-based analytical expressions with technology-dependent device model parameters that are solved by a circuit simulator for circuit analysis during IC design. Compact modeling refers to the art of generating compact models of an IC process technology by extracting elemental model parameters for accurate prediction of the behavior of the circuit elements of that technology ...