TIGFET10nm Open Source Predictive Process Design Kit v1.0 [MIT License]

Copyright (c) [2019] [Laboratory for NanoIntegrated Systems]

This repository is a process design kit for Cadence Virtuoso® describing a TIGFET 10nm silicon nanowire device technology. The design kit is derived using Synopsys Sentaurus TCAD® based device simulations.

This kit consists of a SPICE model and full custom physical design files including a Design Rule Manual, a Design Rule Check, and a Layout Versus Schematic decks for Mentor Graphics Calibre®.

TIGFET10nm PDK Directory Structure

• calibre/ -> SVRF rules for Mentor Graphics Calibre®
• cdslib/ -> Technology libraires for Cadence Virtuoso and setup scripts
• hspice/ -> Simulation models for Synopsys HSPICE®
• doc/ -> Documentation

For more detail about the key assumptions made while designing this PDK, please refer to the following publication:

Ganesh Gore, Patsy Cadareanu, Edouard Giacomin, and Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon "A Predictive Process Design Kit for Three-Independent-Gate Field-Effect Transistors", 2019 IFIP/IEEE 27th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 6-9 October 2019.

Design Kit Installation and Usage (assuming a csh/tcsh shell)

1. Clone the github repository.

git clone https://github.com/LNIS-Projects/TIGFET-10nm-PDK.git
cd TIGFET-10nm-PDK/

2. Set the variable PDK_DIR to where the PDK folder is.

setenv PDK_DIR "$PWD"

3. Copy the required user files to where you want to start Virtuoso®. It is assumed here that Virtuoso is started in the Github folder itself.

source $PDK_DIR/cdslib/setup/setup.csh

Note that this script copies all of the required user files (.cdsinit, cds.lib, and Calibre® runset files) to the current working directory if they do not already exist.

4. Source your setup scripts for Cadence Virtuoso®, Mentor Graphics Calibre®, and Synopsys HSPICE® and launch Cadence Virtuoso® using the provided script:

source launch_tigfet10nm.sh

In case of any doubts/questions/suggestions, please raise issue on GitHub or send an email to pierre-emmanuel.gaillardon@utah.edu or ganesh.gore@utah.edu.