Contents

• Abstract
• Kurzfassung
• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• Typography
• Abbreviations
• Terminology
• 1 Introduction and Overview
  • 1.1 Technology CAD
  • 1.2 Existing TCAD Systems
  • 1.3 VISTA
• 2 The Application-Framework Architecture
  • 2.1 Some Basic Considerations
    • Tool, Application
    • Data Level
    • Task Level and Task Flow
    • Presentation Level
    • Application Framework Architecture
    • Application Integration and Application Development
  • 2.2 Review of Existing TCAD Systems
    • Data Level Aspects
    • Task Level Aspects
    • Presentation Level Aspects
    • Overall Architecture and Tool Integration
  • 2.3 Problem Analysis
    • 2.3.1 Human Aspects of TCAD Methodology
    • 2.3.2 Why Simulation is Always Late
      • Little Changes
      • Big Changes
    • 2.3.3 The Application-Framework Idea
  • 2.4 Requirements
    • 2.4.1 Bottom-Up Design
    • 2.4.2 Design Principles
    • 2.4.3 Qualitative Functional Requirements
  • 2.5 VISTA
    • 2.5.1 History and Structure
    • 2.5.2 The Base System
      • Base System Library
      • Application Development
      • Vienna MAKE
      • The Tool Abstraction Concept
    • 2.5.3 The Data Level
    • 2.5.4 Task Level and User Interface
    • 2.5.5 Generic Services
• 3 Graphical User Interface
  • 3.1 Requirements
  • 3.2 Architectural Design
    • 3.2.1 General Remarks
    • 3.2.2 Related Work
    • 3.2.3 Structure
    • 3.2.4 The Callback Concept
    • 3.2.5 Portability and Configurability
  • 3.3 The VISTA Widget Set
    • 3.3.1 The PIF Editor
    • 3.3.2 The Simple Vector Graphics (SVG) Widget
    • 3.3.3 File Selection
    • 3.3.4 Widget Set Wrapping Layer
  • 3.4 The VUI Library
    • 3.4.1 Widget Macros
    • 3.4.2 Chat Frames and Dialog Frames
    • 3.4.3 Tool Control Panels
• 4 Task Level Environment
  • 4.1 Requirements
  • 4.2 Architectural Design
    • 4.2.1 XLISP
    • 4.2.2 Features
      • Programming Power
      • LISP Specialties
      • Freedom of Implementation
    • 4.2.3 Task Level Tool Integration
  • 4.3 Implementation
    • 4.3.1 Integration of the User Interface
    • 4.3.2 Running External Tools
      • Reusing the Callback Concept
    • 4.3.3 Linking XLISP with Framework Components
    • 4.3.4 LISP Code
    • 4.3.5 Practical Utility
• 5 Visualization
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Architectural Design
  • 5.3 Data Structures
    • 5.3.1 The Simplex Idea
      • Generalized Coordinates
      • Formal Notation
  • 5.4 Implementation
    • 5.4.1 Supported Operations
    • 5.4.2 Data Structures
  • 5.5 Flow-Lines
    • 5.5.1 Theoretical Method
    • 5.5.2 The Two-Dimensional Case
    • 5.5.3 Flow-Line Module Algorithm
    • 5.5.4 Deficiencies
  • 5.6 Volume Visualization
  • 5.7 Ray-Tracing Interface
  • 5.8 The Simple Vector Graphics Format and Library
  • 5.9 A Prototype Visualization Application
  • 5.10 Discussion
• 6 VORONOI Re-gridding and Interpolation Service
  • 6.1 Background
    • 6.1.1 Motivation
    • 6.1.2 Taxonomy of Problems
    • 6.1.3 The Generalized Problem
  • 6.2 Architectural Design
    • 6.2.1 Related Problems and Related Work
    • 6.2.2 The Delaunay Triangulation
    • 6.2.3 Problem Decomposition and Architecture
    • 6.2.4 Scope and Possible Extensions
  • 6.3 Data Structures
    • 6.3.1 The Dual Doubly Connected Edge Lists (DCELs)
      • Access Macros
    • 6.3.2 The Bucket Quadtree
  • 6.4 Boundary Refinement
    • 6.4.1 Motivation
    • 6.4.2 Refinement Criterion
    • 6.4.3 Boundary Grid Point Insertion
    • 6.4.4 Boundary Refinement Algorithm
  • 6.5 Triangulation
    • 6.5.1 Quadtree-divide-and-conquer Voronoi Tessellation
    • 6.5.2 The Merge Step
    • 6.5.3 Alternative Methods
  • 6.6 Interpolation
    • 6.6.1 Background and Problem Definition
    • 6.6.2 Architecture
    • 6.6.3 Choice of the Interpolating Equation
      • Locality and Monotonicity
  • 6.7 Implementation Aspects
    • 6.7.1 Performance
    • 6.7.2 Test and Demonstration Examples
      • Boundary-Boundary Triangulation
      • Geometry-Conforming Grid Point Cloud Triangulation
      • Interpolation
• 7 An Example Application
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Fully Planarized CMOS Technology
  • 7.3 Simulation
    • 7.3.1 VORONOI Bridges Gaps Between Simulation Tools
• 8 Discussion
  • 8.1 Portability
  • 8.2 Application Integration and Development
  • 8.3 VORONOI - an Integrated Application
    • 8.3.1 Base System Integration
    • 8.3.2 Data Level Integration
      • Data Integration
    • 8.3.3 Task Level Integration
    • 8.3.4 Presentation Integration
  • 8.4 Software Quality
    • 8.4.1 Conceptual Integrity
    • 8.4.2 Re-invention of the Wheel
    • 8.4.3 Extension
  • 8.5 Some Critical Remarks
    • Application-Driven TCAD
    • Cut and Paste
    • The Dictatorship of Methodology Application
  • 8.6 Future Directions
    • 8.6.1 Visual Programming
    • 8.6.2 Generalization of the Tool Abstraction Concept
    • 8.6.3 Software Quality Assessment
    • 8.6.4 User Interface
    • 8.6.5 Task Level
    • 8.6.6 VORONOI as General-Purpose Tool
• References
• List of Publications
• Curriculum Vitae
• Index
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