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CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Chapter 5 MOS Inverters: Static Characteristics S.M. Kang and Y. Leblebici 1 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Ideal Inverter Voltage Transfer Characteristic (VTC) of the ideal inverter 2 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Generic Inverter VTC Voltage Transfer Characteristic (VTC) of a typical inverter 3 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Noise Margins Propagation of digital signals under the influence of noise 4 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Noise Margins Definition of noise margins 5 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Noise Margins Nominal output Output under noise The nominal operating region is defined as the region where the gain is less than unity ! 6 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit 7 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit 8 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit determine noise margins inversion (switching) threshold voltage 9 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit nMOS transistor current-voltage characteristics 10 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit pMOS transistor current-voltage characteristics 11 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit Intersection of current-voltage surfaces of nMOS and pMOS transistors 12 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit Intersection of current-voltage surfaces gives the VTC in the voltage plane 13 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit 14 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit How to choose the kR ratio to achieve a desired inversion threshold voltage: 15 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Circuit 16 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Supply Voltage Scaling VTC of a CMOS inverter for different power supply voltage values. 17 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition Supply Voltage Scaling VTC of a CMOS inverter, when operated with a supply voltage that is smaller than (VTn + VTp ). Æ Hysteresis behavior ! 18 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Layout 19 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition CMOS Inverter Layout Mask layout of the inverter Simplified cross-section 20 © CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits – 3rd Edition