Licensing
Cogenda TCAD simulation tools make device simulation easy by providing a host of powerful features designed to help you optimise your process or refine your design. Cogenda offers a comprehensive, yet affordable TCAD solution, plus much more!
Visual TCAD and Genius both designed to operate seamlessly on the Microsoft Windows®, Linux®, Mac OSX® and many other Unix® like platforms.
Flexible Software Licensing
Visual TCAD / Genius can be purchased for a 'one-time' payment under a perpetual license agreement. All updates, upgrades and technical support are free for the 1st year. Thereafter, maintenance and technical support contracts are optionally available. We offer the following versions of Visual TCAD / Genius under license agreement.
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 VisualTCAD (GUI) |
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| Drift-diffusion solver |
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| Lattice temperature |
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| Energy balance solver |
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| 2D mesh |
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| 3D mesh |
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| Optical / FEM / Raytracing |
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| Circuit and device simulation |
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| Parallel computation |
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For more information on license terms, options and pricing please contact us for a quotation. Customized versions of our software are available upon request. Substantial discounts are negotiable for volume sales and educational users. Please contact our sales team to obtain the latest price list.
Add-On Slave CPU’s to Professional Version
Incorporating parallel computation technology, Genius is able to handle large problems with 200,000 or more mesh nodes and is capable of speeding up simulation times by a factor of 10 or more. Additional slave CPU’s may be added to the professional version of Visual TCAD / Genius to enhance the parallel processing capabilities. Add-on slave CPU’s can be purchased. Bundles of 4, 8, 16 and 32 slave CPU’s will eligible for substantial discounts - price on application
Add-On GDS2Mesh to Professional Version
Gds2Mesh is a 3D TCAD model construction tool that takes GDSII mask layouts as input and constructs a device model with predefined and customizable process rules. The generated device structure can be imported in Genius for device simulation.
Source Code Availability
All source code related to physical models is provided along with our simulators. Researchers are welcome to study and improve the code and to develop new models using the Genius simulator. Please feel free to check out a copy of the open source edition on the downloads page.
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WebTCAD
WebTCAD is the web version of Cogenda's VisualTCAD, a powerful tool of TCAD process and device simulation. It's mainly designed for teaching purpose, aimed at demonstrating/simulating industry-standard semiconductor fabricating and working process. The intuitive graphic UI, step-by-step workflow, and fully featured post process ability make it much easier for university teachers and students to use.
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What's New
- VisualTCAD 2024.10 released [2024-11-04]
- VisualTCAD 2024.06 released [2024-07-18]
- VisualTCAD 2024.03 released [2024-04-09]
- VisualTCAD 2024.02 released [2024-03-05]
- VisualTCAD 2023.12 released [2024-01-17]
- VisualTCAD 2023.11 released [2023-12-07]
- MozzTCAD 2023.10 released [2023-11-06]
- VisualTCAD 2.2 3D device simulator Genius support stress induced multi-valley mobility model for Si and SiGe material. [2022-11-01]
- VisualTCAD 2.1-p4 Simulation speed of 3D device simulator Genius increased by 10%~30%. [2022-08-24]
- VisualTCAD 2.1 3D device simulator Genius support nanometer device such as FDSOI and FinFET. [2022-05-15]
- VisualTCAD 2.0 First release of 2D process simulator Genes after years of development. [2021-10-17]
- Vspice 2.2 released [2019-4-15]
- Vspice 2.0 released [2018-10-20]
- VisualTCAD 1.9.2-3 Comes with revamped Total-Ionizing Dose effect simulation and supports SEE simulation in FDSOI circuits. [2017-10-15]
- Cogenda partners with POLYTEDA to distribute PowerDRC/LVS in Asia. [2017-9-15]
- Vspice 1.0 released [2017-4-15]
- CRad's FREE on-line version ForeCAST is open to you now! [2015-12-15]
- VisualTCAD 1.8.2-6 Comes with Total-Ionizing Dose effect simulation, among other improvements. [2015-7-10]
- Cogenda presented a quantitative analysis on the SEU rate of radiation-hardened SRAM cell due to elastic collisions at NSREC 2014. [2014-7-28]
- VisualTCAD 1.8.0-1 released with a new product for space radiation environment and effects analysis [2014-3-22]
- Cogenda presented a fully-physical simulation framework for single-event effects in semiconductor devices at RADECS 2012 [2012-9-28]
- Cogenda to present the super large TCAD device simulation at SISPAD 2012 [2012-6-18]
- Technical: Half-implicit solver for million-mesh-node TCAD device/circuit simulation [2012-6-18]
- VisualTCAD 1.7.4 released [2012-6-3]
- VisualTCAD 1.7.3 released [2012-1-1]
- VisualTCAD 1.7.2-5 released [2011-09-29]
- Cogenda to present MOSFET inverse-modeling technology at SISPAD 2011 and the companion workshop. [2011-07-17]
- Technical: Crossing the 10-transistor barrier of device simulation. [2011-07-12]
- New product: VisualParticle/GSeat for radiation effect analysis. [2011-07-01]
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Solar Cell with Surface Texturing
A section (300x300 um) of a solar cell with inverted pyramid surface texturing, with over 600,000 mesh nodes.
Anti-reflection coating present at the front surface is taken into account in the simulation.