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News Release from: Keithley Instruments
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 October 2001
Keithley and Celestry
in joint support pact
Keithley Instruments has entered a co-operative agreement with Celestry Design Technologies
Initially, the two firms will provide support for shared applications that use Keithley's Model 4200-SCS semiconductor characterisation system and Celestry's BSIMPro modelling package. Bill Merkel, Market Development Manager for Keithley's Semiconductor Products, stated "Celestry has a strong team and product line for device modeling, and BSIMPro has been widely adopted by leading semiconductor companies worldwide.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 October 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Our co-operation provides semiconductor device engineers with the productivity gains inherent in the new Model 4200-SCS, and the flexibility to do advanced Spice modeling with ease and confidence".
Dale A Pollek, Vice President of Marketing for Celestry explained that: "Keithley has long been a leader in automated parametric test systems for the semiconductor industry.
The Model 4200-SCS is an important step forward in device characterisation, and now with new drivers, this new instrument is available to BSIMPro users".
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Introduced in 2000, the Keithley Model 4200-SCS gained immediate success with semiconductor fabs because of its ease of use, speedy measurements, high precision and sub-femtoamp resolution.
These features prompted Keithley/Celestry customers to request Spice modelling support for the Model 4200-SCS.
Under the co-operative agreement, Keithley is supplying Celestry with its Model 4200-SCS, C-V instruments, and engineering support to facilitate development and maintenance of instrument drivers for BSIMPro.
Celestry has developed the instrument drivers and will support BSIMPro customers who specify the Model 4200-SCS as their next generation parameter analyser.
From the results of this co-operative arrangement, Keithley/Celestry customers get a flexible semiconductor characterisation and modelling system that is fully supported by both firms.
The Model 4200-SCS interfaces directly with the PC running BSIMPro.
After data are collected, the user can quickly extract Spice models using BSIMPro's proprietary extraction and optimisation algorithms for circuits containing diodes, mosfet devices, bipolar transistors and passive components.
Once models are extracted, BSIMPro allows the user to verify robustness and smoothness through a 3D viewer and external network interface to SPICE simulators.
BSIMPro optimizes DC and AC model fits for analogue, digital and mixed-signal applications.
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