University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                     Instructional & Electronics Support Group

/share/b/pub/silvaco.help
/share/b/pub/ssuprem3.help

							           July 1, 2004


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		and this software is no longer available.

      See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/clients.cgi?choice=13
             for a list of other Instructional login servers.

               See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/software.html
      for reference to software that is available on the other servers.
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		Silvaco SSUMREM3 on EECS Instructional Systems
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


CONTENTS:
	Silvaco SSUPREM3
	SSUPREM3 Licenses
	Silvaco VWF Tools
	Other CAD Tools


Silvaco SSUPREM3
----------------
  The SSUPREM3 program from Silvaco International is available for EECS
  Instructional users on the UNIX system called mingus.eecs.berkeley.edu.

  To use SSUPREM3, you must have X Windows running on your local workstation.
  All UNIX workstations have X Windows.  All EECS Instructional WinNT/2K
  systems have the an X Windows manager called Exceed.  UC Berkeley students 
  can get Exceed for home use for free.  See 
  http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html

  Here are the steps for running SSUPREM3:

    1) Start XWindow manager if necessary (Exceed, etc)
    2) Login to mingus.eecs.berkeley.edu (using 'ssh') 
    3) 'cd' to the directory where you want to store files
    4) Set your UNIX path with these commands:

       set SILVACO = /share/instsww/silvaco
       set path = ( $SILVACO/hpux11/bin $SILVACO/eecad/bin $path); rehash

    5) Check out a license:	 (EECS students only; SEE "Licenses" BELOW)
       Run:  /share/instsww/silvaco/eecad/bin/eecad_access
       An  "e*ECAD Remote Access" window will pop up.
       Enter Login:    eecsinst
       Enter Password: [ ask your instructor to ask inst@eecs for access ]
       You only need to check out a license once, each time you login.
    6) Run:  /share/instsww/silvaco/hpux11/bin/deckbuild &

  To run a demonstration:

    6) Right-click on  "Main Control", select "Examples..."
    7) Scroll to bottom,
       Double-left-click on "SSUPREM3: 1-D Process Simulation"
       Double-Left-click on "MOS1: MOS Application Examples" or etc
       Double-Left-click on an input file, such as "s3ex01.in"
       Read about the example.
    8) Click on "Load Example".
       It will appear in the initial deckbuild window.
    9) In the deckbuild window, click "run".

  Additional information in in Adobe Acroread format, which you can read 
  on Mingus using the UNIX commands

	acroread /share/instsww/silvaco/docs/ssuprem3_um.pdf &
	acroread /share/instsww/silvaco/docs/vwf-v1.pdf &


SSUPREM3 Licenses
-----------------
  SSUPREM3 is being funded by pay-per-use licensing via http://www.eecad.com.
  EECS Instruction has established a line of credit there that is only for 
  use by students in EECS classes.

  EECS students can download SSUPREM3 onto their own computers from 
  http://www.eecad.com.  They are allowed to use "eecsinst" account to fund
  their use of SSUPREM3 as long as they are using it for EECS coursework.

  Others users can establish their own lines of credit by creating an account
  and providing a credit card number; see http://www.eecad.com for details.


Silvaco VWF Tools
-----------------
  Our licenses for the Silvaco Virtual Wafer Fab (VWF) tools expired in April 
  1999.  We did not renew this software because it was no longer being used.  
  The latest version had been installed on parker.eecs in November 1995.  


Other CAD Tools
---------------
  For references to other CAD tools that are available on EECS Instructional
  computers, please see 
  
	http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cad 
	http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/software
	http://www.silvaco.com
	and /share/b/pub/cad.help 


  Stanford University still provides suprem3 from
  http://www-tcad.stanford.edu/, but it is unsupported.


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