FOSS EKV2.6 Verilog-A Compact MOSFET Model

Abstract

The EKV2.6 MOSFET compact model has had a considerable impact on the academic and industrial community of analog integrated circuit design, since its inception in 1996. The model is available as a free open-source software (FOSS) tool coded in Verilog-A. The present paper provides a short review of foundations of the model and shows its capabilities via characterization and modeling based on a test chip in 180 nm CMOS fabricated via Europractice.

A 5-DC-parameter MOSFET model for circuit simulation in QucsStudio and SPECTRE

“…The normalized inversion charge densities at source (q S ) and drain (q D ) are defined as the inversion charge densities Q S(D) normalized to the thermal charge density −nC ox ϕ t as given in (2).…”