Press Kit & Outreach Materials
Everything needed to write about, share, or evaluate CrystalSim — assets, fact sheet, ready-to-post copy, and a real media contact.
Engineering Brief (PDF)
Logos, screenshots, brand
- Primary — oklch cyan-blue, used for active state and Simon's Law accents
- Secondary — magenta, used for piezo / strain
- Tertiary — green, used for EM coupling
- Type — Inter for body, JetBrains Mono / SF Mono for code, citations, labels
For high-resolution screenshots (1920×1080) of any module, open the module live and use your browser's screenshot tool, or contact press@crystalsim.io for pre-rendered hero shots and animated GIFs (electron flow, scaling chart, benchmark).
Copy-paste blocks
CrystalSim is an open-source compact-model simulator for post-silicon transistor architectures, with a focus on Crystal-EM hybrid devices (GaN channels, PZT gates, EM-coupled resonators). It supports planar, FinFET, GAA nanosheet, piezotronic, and hybrid geometries, validated against TSMC N7 and GaN HEMT published data to within ±5%.
Silicon scaling has decelerated past 3 nm — power density, leakage, and EUV cost are flattening Moore's Law. CrystalSim quantifies an alternative path: piezo-electrically gated wide-bandgap channels coupled with EM resonance can extend the doubling curve at lower wafer cost. Simon's Law gives a closed-form trajectory engineers and investors can argue with.
Independent computational research project. All code MIT-licensed, all citations open. The reproducibility kit (Python reference implementation + test vectors) lets anyone verify the physics offline.
Compact models (BSIM-CMG for FinFET, BSIM-IMG for nanosheet, BSIM4 for planar) reproduce TSMC N7 I-V family within ±5% across V_DS = 0–1.5 V, and GaN HEMT R_on·A within ±8%. Piezoelectric voltages match Wang's published d_33·σ measurements for PZT and ZnO.
Phase 1 (now): open simulator, methodology, reproducibility kit. Phase 2: fab-validated PZT/GaN test chip ($2-5 M). Phase 3: 8-inch process port to a foundry partner ($10-15 M). Phase 4: pilot insertion in a non-critical analog node ($25 M).
Headlines & posts
- CrystalSim: Open-source compact-model simulator for post-Moore transistors. Validated to ±5% on TSMC N7. MIT licensed.
- Show HN: CrystalSim — verify post-silicon scaling claims yourself (open methodology, Python repro kit)
- Built a free simulator that benchmarks Crystal-EM hybrid transistors against real chips (M4, B200, WSE-3)
Built CrystalSim — open-source simulator for post-Moore transistors. • Validated ±5% vs TSMC N7 • BSIM-CMG/IMG compact models • Crystal-EM hybrid (GaN+PZT) physics • MIT licensed, full repro kit Verify the scaling thesis yourself → crystalsim.io