1.1 Existing Data Models

Before a new data model is suggested in Chapter 2 we will take a look at the solutions developed in the past. All solutions known to the author that are used in commercial or university TCAD suites more or less lack a clean, object-oriented definition of a data model from the point of view of the TCAD tool developer. Instead, the data model is reduced to the file level, where a file format and a set of data access libraries are used to read and write data.

Subsections

• 1.1.1 VISTA
  • 1.1.1.1 PAL
  • 1.1.1.2 GRS
  • 1.1.1.3 G2S
  • 1.1.1.4 G3S
  • 1.1.1.5 GAS
  • 1.1.1.6 MAT
  • 1.1.1.7 CLS
  
  
• 1.1.2 DF-ISE
• 1.1.3 TIF
• 1.1.4 Silvaco
• 1.1.5 SWR -- Semiconductor Wafer Representation

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