Stanford
PISCES2B 9009
Win32 version of PISCES2B 9009 PISCES2B.ZIP (binary distribution, 480kb). Updated 22-Oct-02. This version has enlarged array sizes and will run larger examples. Available documentation (as-is from Stanford): PISCES input syntax specification (PDF format, 140kb).
The PISCES2B 9009 code base was taken from the Stanford TCAD web site. Prof. Robert Dutton of Stanford has given me permission to redistribute this Win32 port.
Release notes and bug fixes for PISCES are listed here
TU Vienna
MINIMOS 6.1
The Win32 port of MINIMOS 6.1 from the Technical University of Vienna has been completed (both 2D and 3D variants) and has passed all examples.
Please visit the TU-Wien software web site for download instructions.
Release notes and bug fixes for MINIMOS are listed here
Postmini
V11.0 Graphical Postprocessor (Revised: 30 Mar 2005)
My Postmini graphics visualizer has been approved for release under an open source license. Despite the name, Postmini V11.0 can process a variety of device/process/circuit output file formats:
· MINIMOS “binary” (.bin) output files
· Pisces binary mesh and solution files (both Stanford 9009 and UT Pisces)
· Floops/Floods 2d structure files
· SUPREM4 structure files
· TIF format (with support for Medici and TSUPREM4)
· SPICE3 “raw” files
· ASCII file import
· Analytical functions
Plot types:
· Line and/or marker plots
· Bar charts
· 2D color contour plots
· 3D color surface plots
Postmini supports interactive zoom, rotation, sampling and annotation. Most text can be entered using a subset of the TeX language; this allows super/subscripts, Greek letters, etc. Hardcopy is available to PostScript, using native fonts, and a number of raster formats.
The major enhancements of version 11 are:
1) Almost all internally data structures are now dynamically allocated. This means that arbitrarily sized datafiles can be read (within the limits of the underlying operating system and system configuration) without having to create a custom version of Postmini. Since large arrays are allocated only when needed, this significantly reduces the system resources needed by Postmini.
2) The Suprem4 structure reader can now correctly handle 1D meshes and solutions.
3) A number of contours in a contour plot has increased.
4) A number of bugs fixed: see the README.POSTMINI file.
Download latest Win32 Postmini executable (30 Mar 05): postmini_30mar05_win32.exe
Download latest X86/Linux Postmini executable (30 Mar 05): postmini_30mar05_linux
A full source distribution (code from 29 Sep 2003) can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/postmini_external_29sep03.tar.gz (approx 13Mb).
The WinZip utility http://www.winzip.com/ can be used to uncompress and read this “tar” archive. Please read the file README.POSTMINI for detailed information.
Documentation is provided in the Postmini User’s Guide (postmini_users_guide.pdf).
The file “license.terms” describes how you may redistribute Postmini.
If you download Postmini, please send email to (john dot faricelli at ieee dot org) so I can track Postmini's user base.
The 19 June 01 distribution for Postmini is still available from:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/postmini_external_19jun01.tar.gz (approx 7Mb).
The first (now ancient) distribution of Postmini is still at:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/private/postmini/postmini_source.tar.gz
Please reports bugs to John Faricelli. Thank you.
The MINIMOS and PISCES ports are my personal work and are not related in any way to my current employer. Compaq has graciously allowed me to make Postmini open source.
HP/Compaq Visual Fortran was used to compile the Win32 ports. This compiler is no longer available from HP.
The Intel® Visual Fortran Compiler claims to be source code compatible with HP/Compaq Visual Fortran.
Either Lahey Fortran95 Express/Linux or Intel Fortran for Linux can be used to compile Postmini on X86/Linux. Intel Fortran can be obtained for free for non-commercial use. The open source g95 compiler can be used to compiler Postmini under Linux, but some source code edits are required. These will be part of the next source code distribution (coming soon?)
Last updated: 8 Feb 2006 by jvf.