Verification of a foundry-developed transistor model including measurement uncertainty

We verify a foundry model for state-of-the-art 250 nm heterojunction bipolar transistors with large-signal measurements. We demonstrate the propagation of correlated measurement uncertainties through the verification process, and use them to quantify the differences we observe in the measurements and models.

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