MEMulator
Save R&D money and significantly shorten time-to-market by seeing the effects of design and process modifications before fabricating the actual devices.
Efficient MEMS development requires being able to quickly and accurately create and modify fabrication processes. The design-fabricate-test cycle is costly and time-consuming, and yet, eliminating just one fab cycle, can result in a faster time-to-market and considerable reduction in development costs.
MEMulator enables faster, simpler, lower cost process changes
MEMulator software uses novel "voxel" technology (volumetric pixels) to build highly detailed, virtual prototypes. Input is from 2D masks in industry-standard GDSII format, along with a description of the specific fabrication process.
- Highly realistic 3D models of micro-fabricated devices show the precise impacts of process changes. These are realistic virtual prototypes, not simply idealized geometries
- Applicable to all devices fabricated with IC-style manufacturing techniques, including MEMS, RF passives, and disk-drive heads
- Customizable to any surface and bulk fabrication process
- Efficiently handles wide ranges of model sizes
- Additional capabilities include mask operations, meshing, micro-assembly details, scripting
Screen shot of the MEMulator Layout Editor
Screen shot of the MEMulator Process Editor