Benchmark Tests for MOSFET Thermal Noise Models

In today’s semiconductor industry, many traditional integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) are moving away from chip manufacturing, and transforming into fabless companies that use foundry services for manufacturing their ICs. This is especially true in the field of advanced CMOS technologies. In these companies-under-transformation, the work of the modeling engineer is changing: instead of building models from scratch themselves, most companies choose to use the modeling packages that are delivered by the foundries. As a consequence, the work of the modeling engineer is changing from model creation to model verification.