lucydot/devsim

TCAD Semiconductor Device Simulator

DEVSIM

Introduction:

DEVSIM - TCAD Device Simulator

DEVSIM is a tool for TCAD Device Simulation, using finite volume methods. The source code is provided by Devsim LLC.

Website:

The official website is here:

https://devsim.org

Installation:

Binary releases are available at Zenodo. Please see INSTALL.md for installation instructions.

Citing This Work:

Please see CITATION.md. Please do not cite this Github Repository as it will be moving in the future.

License:

DEVSIM is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. Example scripts are also provided under this license. Other files are subject to the license terms of their copyright owners. Please see LICENSE and NOTICE for license terms.

Documentation:

The PDF documentation is located in doc/devsim.pdf. An online version of the documentation is available at https://devsim.net. A list of documentation resources is available online.

The repository for the documentation is at https://github.com/devsim/devsim_documentation.

Supported Platforms:

• macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
• Microsoft Windows (64 bit)
• Red Hat 7 (Centos Compatible)

Software Features:

• Python scripting
• DC, small-signal AC, impedance field method, transient
• User specified partial differential equations (PDE).
• 1D, 2D, and 3D simulation
• 1D, 2D mesher
• Import 3D meshes.
• 2D cylindrical coordinate simulation
• ASCII file format with PDE embedded.

Please see INSTALL file for installation instructions from source. Please see NOTICE and LICENSE files for copyright and license information.

Support:

For support and general discussion, please join our forum: https://forum.devsim.org

Contributing:

Please see: Contribution guidelines for this project

Testing:

Please INSTALL.md for links to the test repositories for each platform.