An enhanced BSIM modeling framework for selfheating aware circuit design
| Autor: | M. Schleyer, S. Leuschner, P. Baumgartner, J.-E. Mueller, H. Klar |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Advances in Radio Science, Vol 12, Pp 95-101 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1684-9965 1684-9973 88642437 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/ars-12-95-2014 |
| Popis: | This work proposes a modeling framework to enhance the industry-standard BSIM4 MOSFET models with capabilities for coupled electro-thermal simulations. An automated simulation environment extracts thermal information from model data as provided by the semiconductor foundry. The standard BSIM4 model is enhanced with a Verilog-A based wrapper module, adding thermal nodes which can be connected to a thermal-equivalent RC network. The proposed framework allows a fully automated extraction process based on the netlist of the top-level design and the model library. A numerical analysis tool is used to control the extraction flow and to obtain all required parameters. The framework is used to model self-heating effects on a fully integrated class A/AB power amplifier (PA) designed in a standard 65 nm CMOS process. The PA is driven with +30 dBm output power, leading to an average temperature rise of approximately 40 °C over ambient temperature. |
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