MDS - A new, highly extensible device simulator

Abstract

Device simulation needs are growing more diverse and it is difficult for traditional simulators to satisfy them while maintaining usability, maintainability, speed, and robustness. The Modular Device Simulator (MDS) is a completely new simulator framework that addresses this problem by providing simulation building blocks within a dynamic, runtime-configurable framework driven by a scriptable input parser. This flexible framework allows MDS to be applied to a wide range of problems that traditionally would have been handled by many independent codes. MDS has been applied to the 45 nm node and beyond, including advanced applications such as Schrödinger/drift-diffusion and non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF).