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PKU New SOI Circuit Model Invited
for International Standard Competition
PKU NEWS 2008--05—26
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=211794684
Peking University. May 26. 2008: Recently, Group of the Nano and Tera Devices and
Circuits of Peking University, led by Prof. He Jin, was invited by the Chairman of
CMC (Compact modeling Council), which was governed by GEIA (Electronics &
Information Technology Association), to participate in the CMC conference held in
Boston from 5 to 6 May, for New SOI (Silicon On Insulator) IC (integrated circuit)
International Standard Model Choice. The New SOI Circuit Model developed
independently by Peking University will take part in the competition of the
International Standard of High-tech IT –Nanotechnology SOI IC Model.
The nanotechnology SOI circuit model – ULTRA-SOI, developed by PKU
independently, entered the final 4 of the international competition after a long time of
assessment. Therefore the Institute of Microelectronics of PKU has the opportunity
to introduce the innovation of their scientific research on SOI circuit model and
expound the feature of major engineering and technical on SOI Model International
Standard competition in front of the international semiconductor industry giants such
as IBM, AMD, TI, TSMC and EDA companies such as CANDENCE and
SYNOPSYS.
SOI technology has many advantages as a mainstream IC technology such as low
power consumption, strong anti-interference, small isolation area, simple process,
etc. It has effectively overcome the shortcomings of Bulk Silicon technology for its
unique structure. But constrained by high costs and technology, traditionally it was
only used for military and other special areas. Until recent four to five years, since
IBM and AMD produced business SOI chips and computers, SOI IC has gradually
become the mainstream.
The ULTRA-SOI, used for SOI IC technology design and simulation, was developed
under the above background. It uses new physical core and engineering model
structure to simulate nano-scale SOI MOSFET‘s behavior.
This production fully shows the Institute of Microelectronics of PKU is not only the
national basic research center, but also the vanguard of the IC engineering and
technical development,
About GEIA, please see: http://www.geia.org
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