Keysight Radio Frequency Device Model Generator Adopted by Samsung Foundry
June 26 2023 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- New Python-based software accelerates the creation of circuit
libraries for Samsung’s advanced radio frequency semiconductor
process technologies
- Software empowers engineers to customize device modeling
workflows that generate large volumes of data
- Workflow automation significantly reduces extraction time for
today’s transistor and next-generation semiconductor device models
for RF applications
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) announces that Samsung
Foundry has adopted the new Keysight IC-CAP Model Generator (MG) to
accelerate the creation of circuit libraries, a key component of
process design kits (PDKs) for Samsung’s advanced radio frequency
(RF) semiconductor process technologies.
Modeling today’s industry-standard RF fin field-effect
transistors (FinFET) is a complex and time-consuming process
involving massive amounts of data. With the IC-CAP MG software
framework, Samsung’s RF modeling engineers can efficiently organize
large volumes of data to save time extracting transistor models.
The MG handles data management and all the details of simulating
and displaying multi-device simulations, leaving engineers free to
focus on creating and automating custom flows.
Built on Python 3, the MG software is part of Keysight’s
flagship modeling platform, PathWave Device Modeling (IC-CAP). The
software imports and organizes measured data and circuit netlists
for various geometries and temperatures. In addition, the software
automatically creates and efficiently simulates RF trend plots of
key figures of merit based on user input.
All data, including trend plots, is available to build custom
extraction flows through an intuitive and easy-to-use interface.
The product enables efficient simulation and real-time tuning of
multi-devices with complex RF sub-circuits, including netlists
using layout parasitic extraction files. The MG software framework
includes model verification and report generation.
Jongwook Kye, Executive Vice President and Head of Foundry
Design Platform Development at Samsung Electronics, said: “Over
the past few years, we have been collaborating closely with
Keysight EDA to improve the efficiency and accuracy of our RF
modeling flow. By adopting the Model Generator in our workflow, our
efficiency has improved by at least 30 percent. The Model
Generator’s ability to handle complex netlists and the variety of
measured data, including S-parameters and low and high-frequency
noise, is critical to us. The flexibility and powerful performance
of this tool helps improve the accuracy of models. We can customize
the parameters thanks to Python and adapt the Model Generator to
our needs.”
Niels Faché, Vice President and General Manager, Keysight
EDA, said: “The modeling of today’s RF FinFET and tomorrow’s
innovative devices is hugely complex and time-consuming. Engineers
must extract hundreds of parameters to accurately model the RF
behavior of devices for different sizes and temperatures. The Model
Generator removes critical barriers in the workflow and allows
Samsung engineers to focus more on the modeling and less on the
programming. We are pleased that this new solution helps Samsung
better manage their modeling workflow, shorten process design kits
development cycle, and accelerate product time to market.”
Resources
- IC-CAP 2023 Model Generator
- PathWave Device Modeling
- PathWave Model Builder
- PathWave Model QA
- E4727B Advanced Low-Frequency Noise Analyzer
- PathWave WaferPro
To learn more, visit Keysight’s booth at the Samsung SAFE™ Forum
on June 28, 2023 in San Jose, California.
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
www.keysight.com.
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