DeckBuild

Interactive Deck Development and Runtime Environment

DeckBuild is an interactive runtime and input file development environment within which all Silvaco’s TCAD and several other SIMUCAD products can run. DeckBuild has numerous simulator specific and general debugger style tools, such as powerful extract statements, GUI based process file input, line by line runtime execution and intuitive input file syntactical error messages.

Key Features

• GUI based auto-creation of ATHENA process simulation input files
• Hundreds of fully run examples to jump-start new users to almost immediate maximum productivity
• Extremely powerful, simulator specific, pre-written extract statements to extract all manner of process and device characteristics at any stage during the runtime, like layer thicknesses or device threshold voltages
• Extract statements are written in a general script language allowing user definable functions
• Numerical results from previous extract statements can be used as inputs to subsequent extract statements
• Extracted quantities can be used as targets in DeckBuild’s internal optimizer, allowing automatic cyclical optimization of any parameter
• Anything in the input file can be defined as a variable, even structure file names, using a “set” statement
• Any variables created using “set” statements can be used in DeckBuild’s internal Design Of Experiment (DOE) feature, allowing an entire DOE to be run using a single input file
• Many input file creation and debug assist features, such as run, kill, pause, stop at, and re-start
• Other tools can be invoked from the tool box or directly from the input file
  
  

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