Design and Implementation of VLSI Systems (EN0160) Prof. Sherief Reda Division of Engineering, Brown University Spring 2007 [sources: Weste/Addison Wesley – Rabaey/Pearson]
Summary of last lecture NMOS transistor PMOS transistor
Summary of transistor ideal (Shockley) model for nMOS for pMOS
DC transfer characteristics
PMOS on (linear), NMOS off Vin = 0
PMOS on (linear), NMOS on (saturation) V in = 0.2V DD
PMOS on (linear ~ sat) and NMOS (sat) V in = 0.4V DD
PMOS on (sat) NMOS on (linear) Vin = 0.6VDD
PMOS on (off ~ linear) and NMOS on (linear) Vin = 0.8VDD
NMOS on (linear) and PMOS cut off Vin = VDD
Summary of voltage transfer function A B C E D
Noise margins
CMOS inverter noise margins desired regions of operation
What is the impact of altering the PMOS width in comparison to the NMOS width on the DC char? V in3 I dsn, |I dsp | V out V DD V in3 V V If we increase (decrease) the width of PMOS compared to NMOS for the same input voltage, a higher (lower) output voltage is obtained V in V out
Impact of skewing transistor sizes on inverter noise margins Increasing (decreasing) PMOS width to NMOS width increases (decreases) the low noise margin and decreases (increases) the high noise margin
Pass transistor DC characteristics As the source can rise to within a threshold voltage of the gate, the output of several transistors in series is no more degraded than that of a single transistor
Summary Today –Covered DC transfer characteristics Next time –Transistor non-ideal behaviour