Semiconductor Modeling:: For Simulating Signal, Power, and...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 768 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition October 31, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0387241590
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0387241593
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 3.1 pounds

Book Description


Semiconductor Modeling: For Simulating Signal, Power, and Electromagnetic Integrity assists engineers both recent graduates and working product designers in designing high-speed circuits. The authors apply circuit theory, circuit simulation tools, and practical experience to help the engineer understand semiconductor modeling as applied to high-speed digital designs. The emphasis is on semiconductor modeling, with PCB transmission line effects, equipment enclosure effects, and other modeling issues discussed as needed. The text addresses many practical considerations, including process variation, model accuracy, validation and verification, signal integrity, and design flow. Readers will benefit from its survey of modeling for semiconductors, packages, and interconnects, along with usable advice on how to get complex, high-speed prototypes to work on the first try.

Highlights include:

- Presents a very complete and well-balanced treatment of modeling of semiconductors, packages, and interconnects. Facilitates reader comprehension of the whole field of high-speed modeling, including digital and RF circuits.

- Combines practical modeling techniques with the latest EDA tools for simulation and successful high-speed digital design. Facilitates resolution of practical, every-day problems.

- Presents modeling from its historical roots to current state of the art. Facilitates keeping abreast of the latest modeling developments as they continue to unfold.

- Includes a CD-ROM with modeling software and additional model examples.

Reader Reviews
The book offers the latest ideas in more accurate simulations of circuits laid down in semiconductors. The emphasis is at a level above basic device physics simulations. The latter is not really dealt with much. Instead, a reader who might be an electrical engineer needs to design at larger scales of a circuit. You get a discussion of how to use the latest EDA tools. But note that the book is not confined to simulations. One key issue is how to compare simulations against actual measurements taken from live circuits. The IBIS model is also a major portion of the text. Knowledge of how to use IBIS is now often as necessary as knowing SPICE, for many engineers. Comment | | (Report this)