Documentation

(Please use the following official references in your documentation)

     Hicum Level2

M. Schröter, “High-frequency circuit design oriented compact bipolar transistor modeling with HICUM”, (inv. paper), IEICE Transactions on Electronics, Special Issue on Analog Circuit and Device Technologies, Vol. E88-C, No. 6, pp. 1098-1113, 2005. (pdf file)

     Hicum Level0

1.) M. Schröter, S. Lehmann, S. Fregonese, T. Zimmer, “A Computationally Efficient Physics-Based Compact Bipolar Transistor Model for Circuit Design—Part I: Model Formulation”, IEEE Trans. Electron Dev., Vol. 53, pp. 279-286, 2006. (pdf file)

2.) S. Fregonese, S. Lehmann, T. Zimmer, M. Schröter, D. Celi, B. Ardouin, H. Beckrich, P. Brenner, W. Kraus, “A Computationally Efficient Physics-Based Compact Bipolar Transistor Model for Circuit Design—Part II: Parameter Extraction and Experimental Results”, IEEE Trans. Electron Dev., Vol. 53, pp. 287- 295, 2006. (pdf file)

The documentations for all the HICUM models, so far released, are given below:

• HICUM Level2 version 2.31: Release Notes (preliminary)  NEW RELEASE
• HICUM Level2 version 2.30: Release Notes
• HICUM Level2 version 2.24: Operating Point Information
• HICUM Level2 version 2.24: Release Notes
• HICUM Level2 version 2.23: Release Notes 
• Documentation for HICUM Level2 version 2.23:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Model Equation
  • Chapter 3: Parameters
  • Chapter 4: Parameter Determination
  • Chapter 5: Operating Point Information
  • Chapter 6: Experimental Results
  • Chapter 7: Appendix: Derivation of GICCR
  • References
• HICUM Level2 version 2.22: Release Notes
• HICUM Level2 version 2.21: Release Notes
• HICUM Level2 version 2.20: Release Notes
• Documentation for HICUM Level2 version 2.2:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Model Equation
  • Chapter 3: Parameters
  • Chapter 4: Parameter Determination
  • Chapter 5: Operating Point Information
  • Chapter 6: Experimental Results
  • Chapter 7: Appendix: Derivation of GICCR
  • References
• Documentation for HICUM Level2 version 2.1
• Documentation for HICUM Level0 version 1.2  NEW RELEASE
• Documentation for HICUM Level0 version 1.12
  • Part I: Model Formulation
  • Part II: Parameter Extraction and Experimental Results

For more information on Verilog-A language, other developed models, related compilers, and relevant documents, one may get some useful links from our Verilog-A & Compiler Information section.

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