UCLA CMOS Lab - Lab Resources

Characterization Equipment

  • State of the art Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer HP4155B
  • Precision LCR meter HP 4284A
  • HP 4140 B pA meter and DC Voltage Source
  • HP 3325 B Synthesizer/ Function Generator
  • Tektronix 11301 Programmable Oscilloscope
  • HP Dynamic Signal Analyzer 3561A
  • Lakeshore Temperature Controller 330
  • Room temperature probing of wafers (up to 8") and dies via probe station.
  • Low temperature measurements of packaged dies with Lakeshore Cryotronics dewar. Temperature range of dewar ranges from 77 K (liquid nitrogen) to 350 K.
  • Noise measurements via HP 3561A spectrum analyzer
  • Charge pumping. (for measuring interface state density)

Computer Simulation Tools and Resources

  • 3 Windows XP Pentium IV computers
  • Loads of personally owned laptops
  • 2 state-of-the-art printers
    • 1 industrial size color printer (both sides)
    • 1 space age black and white printer + Xerox + scanner + fax (NASA wants one of these)
  • 5 Sun Microsystem workstations for CAD design and simulation
    • 3 SunBlade 2500 with Solaris
    • 1 SunBlade 2000 with solaris
    • 1 SunBlade older model
  • CAD tools commonly used here (at least we hope so!)
    • HSPICE (Transistor and circuit level simulator)
    • Silvaco tools (ATLAS and ATHENA)
    • TMA-MEDICI (Device simulator)
    • ISE-TCAD tools (ver. 10) (DESSIS and cousins)
    • TRIM (Ion implantation simulator)
    • MATLAB
    • MATHEMatica
    • Cadence layout and mask design tool