Get Started with Device Modeling

Upon completion, you should be familiar with

IC-CAP Fundamentals

• Navigating the IC-CAP user interface.
• Programming with PEL and Python in IC-CAP
• Using Verilog-A in IC-CAP
• Custom UI with IC-CAP studio

MBP Fundamentals

• MBP Basics
• Navigating the MBP user interface
• Figures of Merit in MBP
• Advanced operations of MBP

MQA Fundamentals

• Navigating the MQA interface
• Qualifying models with single model and/or multiple models
• Customizing the device index and netlist rules
• Useful utilities for QA and modeling

The course combines lecture presentations with guided hands-on lab exercises.

IC-CAP Fundamentals

• Modeling overview
• IC-CAP user interface and model structure
• Instruments, measurement configuration, modeling fitting and extraction.
• Model circuits and syntax, linking to simulators and how to simulate.
• Optimization and plot optimizer/options.
• Extraction, analysis and automation with PEL programming.
• How to use Verilog-A models in IC-CAP.
• Python programming in IC-CAP.
• Creating Customized User Interfaces with IC-CAP Studio programming.

MBP Fundamentals

• Measurement format in MBP.
• Basic operations, simulation, optimization, and sub-circuit modeling.
• Figure of Merits: IMV and DP setting & Usage, Built-in IMV algorithms.
• Model version management, model compare, model library, dataset, documentation of modeling.

MQA Fundamentals

• The generic device modeling flow.
• The capability of MQA in various scenarios.
• Overview of the MQA GUI and its configuration.
• The core files in MQA - the .icf file and the .rule file.
• How to generate tabulated results directly with MQA.
• Useful utilities in MQA, which improve the efficiency of modeling.

IC-CAP Fundamentals

• Lab 1: This lab introduces the IC-CAP user interface and basic operations
• Lab 2: This lab will help you get familiar with the data operation and plot.
• Lab 3: This lab will help you get familiar with model circuits, simulation and optimization
• Lab 4: This lab will show how to use PEL to create custom extraction code and optimizations
• Lab 5: This lab shows how to configure and use veriloga models in model simulation
• Lab 6: Introduction to basic python programming in IC-CAP
• Lab 7: The lab covers using python to create a complete modeling flow and creating a custom python module.
• Lab 8: Using IC-CAP Studio features and creating custom GUI’s

MBP Fundamentals

• Lab 1: This lab will help you get familiar with the concepts of what measurement and model files look like and you will also go through a tutorial to a Diode model example in MBP
• Lab 2: This lab will help you get familiar with the fundamental operation of MBP GUI.
• Lab 3: This lab will help you get familiar with how to work with figures of merit in MBP.
• Lab 4: This lab will help you get familiar with more advanced operations.
  • Multi-step undo/redo and region selection and clear
  • Double Sim, Model comparison
  • Export HSPICE to SPECTRE format
  • Lib parser: Bin & Point selector, Add model mode
  • Multiple dataset & Documentation

MQA Fundamentals

• We have four hands-on labs in which you will use the MQA software for you to get familiar with the MQA basics.
• Lab 5 will let you practice customizing ICF and Rule files.
• Lab 6 is a practice for tabulated results.