The PROPHET simulator is a framework to solve systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) in time and 1, 2 or 3 space dimensions. The simulator is designed with three main goals: efficiency, geometric flexibility, equation extensibility. The first two distinguish it from canned packages such as Mathematica, which do not allow the use of arbitrary shapes or grids and are not tuned to solve systems with hundreds of thousands of unknowns. The third distinguishes it from previous application-specific simulators such as PISCES or SUPREM-4. The simulator has been used in production for several years to predict semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Recently, PROPHET has been extended at Stanford for device simulation and electromagnetic (EM) field prediction. My work concentrates on introducing EM capabilities into the PROPHET framework.