A free, open-source technology computer aided design software for simulating semiconductor structures and devices.
OBPDS currently provides 1D electrostatic simulation of
III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures, similar to Prof. William
Frensley's Bandprof. Materials parameters are provided by the
Open Band Parameters sister project.
If you would like to try OBPDS before installing it,
check out the interactive tutorial_.
The source code_ is graciously hosted by GitHub.
.. BandProf: https://courses.ece.ubc.ca/480/downloads.htm
.. Open Band Parameters: http://github.com/scott-maddox/openbandparams
.. interactive tutorial: http://mybinder.org/repo/scott-maddox/obpds-binder/tutorial.ipynb
.. source code: http://github.com/scott-maddox/obpds
In order to use OBPDS, you must having a working Python_ distribution
installed. Python 3 support has not yet been tested, so Python 2.7 is
suggested.
.. _Python: https://www.python.org/download/
This is the recommended method for installing OBPDS. PyPi is the python
package index, which contains many python packages that can be easily installed
with a single command. To install OBPDS from PyPi, open up a command
prompt and run the following command::
pip install obpds.. _PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi
In order to install OBPDS from source, you must fist install the following prerequisite packages:
.. Numpy: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html
.. Scipy: http://www.scipy.org/install.html
.. Matplotlib: http://matplotlib.org/users/installing.html
.. OpenBandParams: http://scott-maddox.github.io/openbandparams/installation.html
Once these are installed, download the latest release .zip or .tar.gz
source package from the github releases_ page, extract its contents, and run
python setup.py install from within the extracted directory.
.. _github releases: http://github.com/scott-maddox/obpds/releases/latest
Interactive documentation is hosted through mybinder.org.
If you have difficulty accessing the interactive version,
a static version is available here.
.. documentation: http://mybinder.org/repo/scott-maddox/obpds-binder
.. here: https://github.com/scott-maddox/obpds-binder/blob/master/index.ipynb