bsim5

Silvaco announced that they support bsim5.

That very nice and all, but what the heck is bsim5 ? It is not even mentioned on berkeley EECS.

 

I saw something by Jin He and al. If you can't find it I can e-mail to
you the pdf. Good luck.

 

I believe it is a Surface Potential model which is currently under
beta-test from Berkeley. There doesn't seem to be much information
about it publicly yet.

Andrew.

 

According to that slide (http://www.eigroup.org/cmc/next_gen_cmos/bsim5latest.pdf)
It has the taste of a SP based model without being one. Reminds me of the ad' for some ginger ale.
It is extracted like a bsim4, calculates charges but *also* has stg to do with the SP. You get the taste of SP (decent distortion results ) without the hangover (new parametersets).
*yummy*yummy*

I put more trust on those contenders that simply publish the verilogAMS code for their latest model.