DEVSIM

DEVSIM: A TCAD Semiconductor Device Simulator - Published in JOSS (2022)

https://github.com/devsim/devsim

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TCAD Semiconductor Device Simulator

Basic Info
  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: devsim
  • License: apache-2.0
  • Language: C++
  • Default Branch: main
  • Homepage: https://devsim.org
  • Size: 51.7 MB
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c-plus-plus devsim finite-volume pde python semiconductor semiconductor-physics tcad tcad-device-simulator
Created almost 13 years ago · Last pushed about 1 year ago
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README.md

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DEVSIM

Introduction:

DEVSIM - TCAD Device Simulator

DEVSIM is a tool for TCAD Device Simulation, using finite volume methods. The source code is provided by DEVSIM LLC.

Website:

The official website is here:

https://devsim.org

Software Features:

  • Python scripting
  • DC, small-signal AC, impedance field method, transient
  • User specified partial differential equations (PDE).
  • Extended floating point precision
  • 1D, 2D, and 3D simulation
  • 1D, 2D mesher
  • Import 3D meshes.
  • 2D cylindrical coordinate simulation
  • ASCII file format with PDE embedded.

Usage In Research:

Please see this link for a list of published research papers using or referring to the DEVSIM simulator.

Installation:

Please see INSTALL.md for installation instructions. Please see BUILD.md for instructions to build from source.

Citing This Work:

Please see CITATION.md. Please do not cite this Github Repository as it will be moving in the future.

License:

DEVSIM is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. Example scripts are also provided under this license. Other files are subject to the license terms of their copyright owners. Please see LICENSE and NOTICE for license terms.

Documentation:

The PDF documentation is located in doc/devsim.pdf. An online version of the documentation is available at https://devsim.net. A list of documentation resources is available online. Recent changes are available in CHANGES.md.

The repository for the documentation is at https://github.com/devsim/devsim_documentation.

Supported Platforms:

| OS | Version | Architecture | | --- | --- | --- | | macOS | Monterey 12.5 | arm64, x86_64 | | Microsoft Windows | Windows 10 | x64 | | Linux | AlmaLinux 8 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Compatible) | aarch64, x86_64 |

Code of Conduct:

Please see CODEOFCONDUCT.md.

Support:

For support and general discussion, please join our forum: https://forum.devsim.org

Contributing:

Please see: Contribution guidelines for this project

Testing

Please see TEST.md.

Related Projects

Used directly by the simulator

| Name | Description | | --- | --- | | symdiff | Symbolic differentiation engine for the simulator | | devsim_documentation | Documentation for the simulator |

Extended examples

| Name | Description | | --- | --- | | devsimbjtexample | Bipolar Junction Transistor example | | devsimdensitygradient | Quantum Corrections to Drift Diffusion simulation | | devsim_3dmos | 3D Mosfet example used in publication | | devsim_misc | Miscellaneous scripts |

Owner

  • Name: devsim
  • Login: devsim
  • Kind: organization
  • Location: Austin, TX

Citation (CITATION.md)

# DEVSIM Citation

## Peer Reviewed Articles

Sanchez, J. E., (2022). DEVSIM: A TCAD Semiconductor Device Simulator. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(70), 3898,
[https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03898](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03898)

J. E. Sanchez, and Q. Chen, “Element Edge Based Discretization for TCAD Device Simulation,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2021,
[https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2021.3094776](https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2021.3094776)

## Citing A Software Release

This software has been issued a DOI which is citable in publications.  Please see the instructions at [Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1186952) for citing this version, or all versions of this simulator.

## Citing The Documentation

The documentation has been issued a DOI which is citable in publications.  Please see the instructions at [Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4583208) for citing this version, or all versions of this simulator.

## Other References

Please visit this projects [Official Website](https://devsim.org/introduction.html#documentation) for additional references concerning this work.


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DEVSIM: TCAD Device Simulator

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