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Hi,
I have a question about BJT in CMOS process.
let's say, the foundry supplies model PNP18A100 for a 10ux10u BJT,

when i use it, do i need to put area parameter in the spice line?
such as,
Q1 1 2 3 pnp12a100 AREA=1e-10

or do i just use

Q1 1 2 3 pnp12a100
??
the reason why i am asking is that, the dc charactics are quite different by adding or not adding the area parameter.

I also noticed that after I did the layout extraction, the "area" parameters are added in the extracted netlist.

Please help!
Thanks a lot!
 

bjt post layout simulation

You don't need to add area.
 
post layout bandgap

but the question is, the extracted netlist from layout contains the area parameters and the post layout simulation is way off.

If I remove those "area" parameters from the extracted netlist, the results are good.

So, do you mean that the extracting software did a wrong job?

I've checked the calibre LVS script for both TSMC and SMIC, they all put "Area" parameters in the extracted netlist.

Do you mean they are all wrong and i have to manually remove the "Area" parameters from every extracted netlist?


Thanks!
 
smic bjt model example

You should remove the "area".

You can read the pdf document in the folder of spice model.
 

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bandgap bjt

Thanks a lot.

did a sanity check, and found adding "area" is giving unrealistic results.
 

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