The original program system VLSICAP needs three kinds of data on input:
Since PIF can hold the complete physical problem description including the
geometry, materials, and doping profiles, both the input data and
doping data files are replaced with a single input PIF binary
file. The input deck, however, has to be kept for the
specification of non-physical information, like the master file name
<MFN> and which quantities should be written to the PBF once the
run is completed. The following sections describe how the various required
inputs for MESHCP are stored on PIF.