Silvaco Group, Inc. · NASDAQ:SVCO
Silvaco — Technical Presentation (2023)
9 slides from Silvaco's technical presentation, Jan 13, 2023
Slide 1: Victory Atomistic: Practical Atomic Scale Simulation
Victory Atomistic Practical Atomic Scale Simulation
Slide 2: Contents
Contents • TCAD simulation device size continuum • Commercial tool flow integration • Full band structure calculations • Carrier transport device physics • Summary ©2023 Silvaco, Inc. 2
Slide 3: TCAD Simulation Continuum
TCAD Simulation Continuum ©2023 Silvaco, Inc. 3
Slide 4: Commercial Tool Flow Integration
Commercial Tool Flow Integration • The trusted legacy atomistic simulator, “NEMO” from Purdue University, is now productized and tightly integrated into Silvaco’s TCAD tool flow. • Leverages atomic level simulation accuracy, into final circuit simulations at the SPICE level ©2023 Silvaco, Inc. 4
Slide 5: Commercial Tool Flow Integration
Commercial Tool Flow Integration • Uses the familiar Silvaco user interface • Newly developed in house atomistic plotting capability with other custom features • Silvaco style manuals • Customer support • Examples ©2023 Silvaco, Inc. 5
Slide 6: Full Band Structure Calculations
Full Band Structure Calculations • Victory Atomistic uses calibrated tight binding parameters to calculate accurate band structure • Removes the limitation of relying on the constant effective mass approximation VA -Band structure of Si ©2023 Silvaco, Inc. 6
Slide 7: Carrier Transport Device Physics
Carrier Transport Device Physics Complete Nanowire Simulation • Quantum transport: – QTBM ballistic – NEGF scattering – Electron phonon self energy • Strain dependency Illustration of Potential • Schrodinger Poisson – Self consistent • Density of states • Transmission probability • Optics ©2023 Silv
Slide 8: Atomistic Simulation Speed for Everyday Use
Atomistic Simulation Speed for Everyday Use • Advanced numerical acceleration techniques like mode space and Büttiker probe • Uses MPI and OpenMP for parallel processing ©2023 Silvaco, Inc. 8
Slide 9: Summary
Summary • Novel approaches for greatly reduced simulation time • Practical whole device simulations now possible • Efficient hyper scaling and cloud based computing • Supported commercial product with ease of use • Link atomistic simulations to circuit SPICE models • Simulate 2D materials, quantum d