Category: open source

  • EDA software and the CentOS 7 end of life

    Electronic design automation (EDA) vendors develop software for the design of semiconductor chips and computer hardware. Being long running, distributed applications, customers will often use a grid of Linux servers to run EDA software. Information technology (IT) departments are responsible for keeping these servers running, with minimal downtime. Due to its free cost, and widespread…

  • DEVSIM TCAD Simulator

    The DEVSIM semiconductor device simulator is an open source software. The project home page is at https://devsim.org. As the primary developer, my goal is to create a general purpose tool that can be used for both traditional drift-diffusion and multi-physics problems. The forum at https://forum.devsim.org is a good place to join the discussion about this…

  • TCAD Central

    One of the websites I maintain is TCAD Central, located at https://tcadcentral.com.  One of the most useful is a listing of open source and proprietary TCAD simulation tools.  Please check it out.