I got some helpful responses. Thanks, and I'll look into those. Meanwhile, another faculty member in the ECE department referred me through a chain that got me in touch with someone at MOSIS. They have good 32nm models, so I'm going to see if I can get access.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Timothy Normand Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > For proper energy simulation of our GPU, we're going to need some good > transistor models. For some circuits, we can do SPICE simulations of > carefully-crafted circuits in order to do a better job of calculating > energy than a gate-level sim in Cadence. This is also vitally important if > we want to design GPUs to contain sensors that measure things like > temperature, current, voltage, and delay. > > I'm not an electrical engineer or a physicist. Sure, I know how to use > SPICE, and I know how MOSFETs work at a general level, but I've got no clue > about how to construct a proper model of a modern high-performance > transistor. My colleagues tell me I need better transistor models, but no > one seems to know where to FIND one. Apparently, researchers at many > universities have models (they're called "cards" in SPICE) that are given > to them by fabs, but under non-disclosure. I don't need one that specific, > however. Just something about right for certain geometries. > > The best I've been able to find is this: > http://ptm.asu.edu > > The problem that sticks out, however, is that the threshold voltages are > all wrong, because these are ultra low-power transistors. I need > high-performance transistors that typically have Vth around 200mV. > > Anyone know where I can get started with this? If not, I'm going to have > to do an ask slashdot. :) > > -- > Timothy Normand Miller, PhD > Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University > http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/ > Open Graphics Project > -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/ Open Graphics Project
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