Title
PETE: A device/circuit analysis framework for evaluation and comparison of charge based emerging devices
Abstract
This paper describes PETE, a tool that has been developed for circuit/system level evaluation of nanoscaled devices. The motivation behind developing this tool is the fact that traditional device metrics like CV/Ion, Ioff or CV2f can no longer capture the true potential of semiconductor devices and underestimate or overestimate system level performance. At the same time, the development and deployment of compact models for any new device is a time-consuming effort, a task that can only be undertaken once the potential of the de established. Towards this end, we have developed PETE, so that device and circuit designers can perform a fast and reasonably accurate estimation of any new device without having to develop compact models. The inputs to PETE can be numerical I-V and C-V characteristics (derived from experiments or device simulations), and the tool can numerically evaluate a wide array of circuit/system level metrics pertaining to performance and power of logic gates, ring oscillators and mega-cells. We have evaluated four emerging device technologies, namely, 15 nm Silicon MOSFET transistors, Multi transistors, Band-to-band-tunneling transistors, and Ferroelectric FETs with PETE and the results obtained are within a 5% level of inaccuracy when compared to a traditional SPICE based approach. PETE has been deployed on the nanoHUB (nanohub.org) for public use, and its simple web interface ensures that even a non-expert in circuits can obtain accurate estimation of performance-power trade new technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISQED.2009.4810273
San Jose, CA
Keywords
Field
DocType
system level evaluation,semiconductor device,overestimate system level performance,device technology,traditional device metrics,nanoscaled device,device simulation,compact model,accurate estimation,new device,circuit analysis framework,circuit design,integrated circuit design,circuit analysis,logic gates,logic gate,semiconductor devices,web interface,ring oscillator
Logic gate,Computer science,Spice,Electronic engineering,Integrated circuit design,Network analysis,Semiconductor device,Transistor,MOSFET,Electronic circuit,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-2953-0
4
1.73
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charles Augustine1555.90
Arijit Raychowdhury251471.77
Yunfei Gao342.06
Mark Lundstrom441.73
Kaushik Roy57093822.19