Title
TCAD-Spice Co-Simulation of Ferroelectric Capacitor as an Electrically Trimmable On-Chip Capacitor in Analog Circuit
Publication Date
10-14-2019
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Department
Electrical Engineering
Publication Title
2019 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S)
DOI
10.1109/S3S46989.2019.9320741
Abstract
In this paper, Ferroelectric Capacitor (FEC) is proposed as an electrically trimmable capacitor for integrated circuit applications and verified using TCAD-SPICE co-simulation. TCAD simulation is used to obtain the FEC capacitance by solving Landau-Khalatnikov (LK) Equation and Poisson Equation. TCAD mixed-mode simulation is used to study the stability of the circuit. FEC compact model is extracted and implemented in Verilog-A code. The FEC is then used in a single stage common source amplifier and, by changing the DC bias of the FEC from -5V to 0V, the 3dB bandwidth is shown to be trimmable electrically from 0.6GHz to 1.3GHz. The methodology also demonstrates the possibility of Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) of FEC in analog and RF circuits by using TCAD-SPICE co-simulation.
Funding Sponsor
San José State University
Keywords
capacitance trimming, DTCO, Ferroelectric capacitor, TCAD
Recommended Citation
K. Huynh, A. C. Tenkeu, K. P. Pun, and H. Y. Wong. "TCAD-Spice Co-Simulation of Ferroelectric Capacitor as an Electrically Trimmable On-Chip Capacitor in Analog Circuit" 2019 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S) (2019). https://doi.org/10.1109/S3S46989.2019.9320741