Graphical User Interfaces

Graphical tools offer a convenient method to visualize distributed quantities obtained from simulations. Due to the different vendors and different functionalities of the tools, a various number of graphical user interfaces has been developed.

• 1D-GUIs:
  The VSP-GUI[314] is a graphical user interface for the gate stack analyzer VSP [304]. This GUI has been developed to guide the user through the complete simulation procedure from the graphical simulation set-up of the device geometry, the configuration of the simulation, and the visualization and data manipulation of the simulation results to extract and export certain distributed quantities.
  XCRV [37] is a front-end script for the two-dimensional plotting tool XMGRACE^4.17. XCRV has been designed to access the most common plotting features by command line using XMGRACE via scripts.

• 2D-GUIs:
  XPIF2D [37] is a graphical tool to visualize simulation results of the device simulator MINIMOS-NT. It supports two-dimensional visualization and offers the capability to draw and export also cuts along user-defined lines.

• 3D-GUIs:
  SMARTV [315] is a visualization tool for the three-dimensional data formats from process and device simulation tools. SMARTV is capable of visualizing the graphical file formats FEM [39], FLD [39], and WSS [39,316].
  As an alternative, the data explorer (OPENDX)^4.18 can be used as it provides a multi-purpose scientific visualization tool with the capability of individual configuration of the inputs and outputs. This includes a feature that allows the format of the data to be specified and adapted for a particular file format and at the user's need.