Agilent expands device-modeling investment with China R&D center
-- Test & Measurement World, 3/1/2007 9:24:00 AM
Agilent Technologies has announced plans to expand the company's investment in its Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) device modeling software by establishing a new research and development modeling center in Beijing.
"The recent decline in viable solutions has allowed Agilent to gain marketplace prominence as the only Fortune 500 company providing CMOS modeling solutions," said Jim McGillivary, GM with Agilent's EEsof EDA division. "We've seen several leading semiconductor foundries choose IC-CAP because they want a device-modeling platform that keeps pace with CMOS technology advances. We're increasing our investment in this important area by adding key engineering talent in Asia, where we can work closely with these foundries."
IC-CAP provides characterization and analysis capabilities for semiconductor modeling processes, including instrument control, data acquisition, graphical analysis, simulation, optimization, and statistical analysis. IC-CAP includes an extraction methodology for all three of the standard CMOS device models (BSIM3, BSIM4, and PSP), giving designers the ability to use current extraction processes and move to the next-generation model within a single software environment. The company reports that IC-CAP's intelligent direct extraction methodology, compared with the more time-consuming optimization approach, has allowed modelers to reduce core tasks from 14 to two days when using IC-CAP and the BSIM4 modeling package.
