ParaSCOPE:
Parallel Shared Computational Prototyping Environment
Principal Investigators
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Objective
A parallel shared computational prototyping environment will be
developed that can support a diverse set of technology computer-aided
design (TCAD) applications for technology evaluation and scaling in
systems applications. A heterogenous tool integration strategy will
be used to support both new object-oriented modules and mature codes
that efficiently share data and exploit parallel computational
resources. A layered model implementation strategy, now being
developed within the SPRINT-CAD project, allows flexibility to
quickly create new applications. Industrial partners will help both
in the development and testing of ParaSCOPE in the context of advanced
technologies.
Approach
TCAD modules will be built, integrated and tested based on an
object-oriented approach that both develops and uses common
application procedural interfaces (API) for representation of the
wafer and underlying parallel solver technologies. A heterogeneous set
of process and device simulators will be integrated using common
server technology and unified layered-access interfaces. The modules
to be included in ParaSCOPE include the following:
- two- and three-dimensional device analysis, drawing from existing
mature tools (i.e. PISCES and FIELDAY), that will be parallelized and
applied to advanced bulk CMOS and other experimental technologies.
- two- and three-dimensional process simulation, based on a single
modular code (PROPHET), that will be parallelized and applied to
advanced transient kinetic effects that affect process scaling.
- one-, two- and three-dimensional deeply object-oriented model
development environment, based on modules now being developed in the
SPRINT-CAD project, that will parallelized and applied in totally new
application domains such as simulation for interconnect modeling.
Milestones (FY-96)
- Prototype and demonstrate application procedural interface (API) for
parallel solvers, based on experience with PISCES-MP and FIELDAY.
- Restructure PROPHET for parallelization with initial demonstration
targeted for SGI-based parallel environment.
- Demonstrate heterogeneous 3D tool integration based initially on
process modules PROPHET and ALAMODE.
- Demonstrate parallelized version of ALAMODE module, running on IBM
SP/2.
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Bruce Herndon
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