Introduction

Technology CAD (or Technology Computer Aided Design) is one of electronic design automation methods which models semiconductor fabrication and device operation. Several TCAD toolchains are provided to the market from: Synopsys, Silvaco, Crosslight. One can refer ​TCAD Central to find out currently available TCAD packages, including open source projects.

The AGIPD simulation project is mainly tied to the Silvaco toolchian.