TCAD Perspectives
Vendor’s perspective
- General tools with maximum user flexibility.
- Cover a wide spectrum of applications.
- Include the state-of-the-art physical models.
- User interface, user friendliness, tool integration and support.
User’s perspective
- Multi-target optimization problem in a multi-variable design space.
- Specific objectives for specific users:
- Process engineers ? trade-off in reducing split-lots.
- Device physicists ? physical mechanism and limits, device optimization.
- Circuit engineers ? SPICE parameters (before the design is fabricated).
Industrial vs. academic
- New physical models from the research community often lag behind the technology in the industry.
- Software vendors are not in a co-development mode with technology developers.