The nanocops project on algorithms for nanoelectronic coupled problems solutions

The nanoCOPS project [1, 2] is a collaborative research project within the FP7- ICT research program funded by the European Union. The consortium comprises experts in mathematics, physics and electrical engineering from seven universities (BU Wuppertal, HU Berlin, Brno UT, TU Darmstadt, FH OO Hagenberg, U Greifswald, KU Leuven), one research institute (MPG Magdeburg), two industrial partners (NXP Semiconductors Netherland and ON Semiconductor Belgium) and two SMEs (MAGWEL and ACCO Semiconductor). We present an overview of the project subjects addressing the "bottlenecks" in the currently-available infrastructure for nanoelectronic design and simulation. In particular, we discuss the issues of an electro-thermal-stress coupled simulation for Power-MOS device design and of simulation approaches for transceiver designs at high carrier frequencies and baseband waveforms such as OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex).