Patent ID: 6931609

Claim:
A method of calculating, by using a computer, capacitance parameters in an equivalent circuit model of a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), said method comprising the steps of calculating S parameter data of a scattering matrix from measured transparent and reflection data at a high frequency region with the MOSFET regarded as a two-terminal pair circuit, of converting the S parameter data of the scattering matrix into Y parameter data of an admittance matrix, and of calculating the capacitance parameters in the equivalent circuit model so as to fit for the Y parameter data, said method comprising the steps of: preliminarily storing, as said equivalent circuit model, an equivalent circuit having a gate terminal, a drain terminal, a source terminal, and a substrate terminal, said equivalent circuit comprising a gate electrode resistor, a drain electrode resistor, a source electrode resistor, and a substrate electrode resistor which are connected to the gate terminal, the drain terminal, the source terminal, and the substrate terminal, respectively, said equivalent circuit comprising gate capacitors and tunnel conductances which correspond to a film thickness of a gate oxide film and an area between electrodes, respectively, the gate capacitors and the tunnel conductances being connected in parallel between said gate electrode resistor and one of said drain electrode resistor, said source electrode resistor, and said substrate electrode resistor, respectively, said equivalent circuit comprising junction capacitors of the electrodes and loss resistors which are connected in series between said substrate electrode resistor and one of said drain electrode resistor and said source electrode resistor; determining whether it is possible or impossible to calculate the capacitance parameters on the basis of real part secondary dependent areas and imaginary part linear dependent areas in frequency characteristics of said Y parameter data; outputting a message indicative of disapproval of calculation when it is impossible to calculate the capacitance parameters; generating relational expressions of the Y parameters in said two-terminal pair circuit that correspond to the equivalent circuit model, measurement conditions, and a manufacturing condition of said MOSFET when it is possible to calculate the capacitance parameters; approximating, by using approximation conditions corresponding to said real part secondary dependent areas and said imaginary part linear dependent areas, real parts and imaginary parts of the relational expressions for said Y parameters into secondary functions and linear functions to produce approximated expressions for the relational expressions of said Y parameters; and calculating said capacitance parameters on the basis of said approximated expressions and equations for the imaginary parts of said Y parameter data.