COMSON (COupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics) is a Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Commission in the framework of the programme “Structuring the European Research Area” within the 6th Framework Research Programme of the European Union. It was established on October 1st, 2005, and will run for a total of four years.
The main objective of the Consortium is to realize an experimental Demonstrator Platform in software code, which comprises coupled simulation of devices, interconnects, circuits, EM fields and thermal effects in one single framework. It connects each individual achievement, and offers an adequate simulation tool for optimisation in a compound design space.
The Consortium will use the Demonstrator Platform as a framework to test mathematical methods and approaches, so as to assess whether they are capable of addressing the industry’s problems, and to adequately educate young researchers by hands-on experience on state-of-the-art problems, and beyond.
The platform does not aim at replacing existing industrial or commercial codes. However, it will be capable of analysing medium sized coupled problems of industrial relevance, thus offering a chance to develop advanced mathematics for realistic problems. Such a platform is urgently needed for academic research, since it provides a natural test bench with state-of-the-art models and parameters from the different domains rather than academic simplifications. The second benefit of such a platform is to collect the knowledge about models and methods, which is widespread distributed over the different nodes of this Consortium, thus giving excellent opportunities for transfer of knowledge and mutual stimulation of new research. In addition, the Demonstrator Platform will be a central realisation of all needed documents, reports, manuscripts, and courses to be developed during the project execution. It also plays a central role in the training and transfer of knowledge within the COMSON Consortium.