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MOSFET Types
The Big Picture
MOS Structure
Ideal I-V Charcteristics
MOS Capacitance Models
Non ideal I-V Effects
Pass transistor circuits
Tristate Inverter
Switch level RC Delay Models 2
Types of MOSFET
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Types of MOSFET
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The Big Picture
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MOS Transistor Symbol
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MOS Structure
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nMOS Transistor Terminal Voltages
Mode of operation depends on Vg, Vd, Vs V g
+ +
Vgs = Vg – Vs V gs
V gd
- -
Vgd = Vg – Vd V V
s - + d
No channel
Ids = 0
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nMOS in linear operation mode
Channel forms
Current flows from D to S
e- from S to D
Ids increases with Vds
Similar to linear
resistor
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nMOS in Saturation operation mode
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pMOS Transistor
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I-V Characteristics (nMOS)
In Linear region, Ids depends on
How much charge is in the channel?
How fast is the charge moving?
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Channel Charge
MOS structure looks like parallel
plate capacitor while operating in
inversion:
Gate – oxide – channel
Qchannel = CV
C = Cg = eoxWL/tox = coxWL
V = Vgc – Vt = (Vgs – Vds/2) – Vt
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Carrier velocity
Charge is carried by e-
Carrier velocity v proportional to lateral
E-field between source and drain
v = mE m called mobility
E = Vds/L
Time for carrier to cross channel:
t=L/v
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nMOS Linear I-V
Now we know
How much charge Qchannel is in the channel
How much time t each carrier takes to cross
Qchannel
I ds =
t
mCox
WV V Vds V
gs ds
2
t
L
Vgs Vt
Vds
Vds
W 2
= mCox 16
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nMOS Saturation I-V
I ds Vgs Vt dsat V
V
dsat
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Vt
2
Vgs
2
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nMOS I-V Summary
0 Vgs Vt cutoff
Vds V V V
I ds Vgs Vt ds linear
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ds dsat
Vgs Vt
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Vds Vdsat saturation
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The MOSFET as a Controlled Resistor
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Pinch - off and Saturation
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I-V characteristics of nMOS Transistor
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I-V characteristics of nMOS Transistor
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pMOS I-V Characteritics
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I-V characteristics
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MOS capacitor
An MOS capacitor is made of a semiconductor
body or substrate, an insulator and a metal
electrode called a gate.
Practically the metal is a heavily doped n+ poly-
silicon layer which behaves as a metal layer.
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Capacitances of a MOS Transistor
Gate to channel capacitor is very important
Creates channel charge necessary for
operation (intrinsic capacitance)
Source and drain have capacitance to body
(parasitic capacitance)
Across reverse-biased diodes
Called diffusion capacitance because it is
associated with source/drain diffusion
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Capacitances of a MOS Transistor
Gate to channel capacitor is very important
Creates channel charge necessary for
operation (intrinsic capacitance)
Source and drain have capacitance to body
(parasitic capacitance)
Across reverse-biased diodes
Called diffusion capacitance because it is
associated with source/drain diffusion
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Capacitances – V Curve
The flat band voltage (Vfb) is the voltage at which there is no charge on the
capacitor plates and hence there is no static electric field across the oxide.
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Gate Capacitance
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Gate Capacitance
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Non-ideal I-V effects
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Velocity saturation and
mobility degradation
At strong lateral fields (Vds /L), resulting from high Vds, carrier velocity ceases to
increase linearly with field strength, drift velocity rolls off due to carrier scattering
and eventually saturates
Strong vertical fields (Vgs /tox ) resulting from large Vgs cause the carriers to
scatter against the surface and also reduce the carrier mobility. This effect is
called mobility degradation
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Velocity saturation and
mobility degradation
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Channel length modulation
The reverse biased p-n junction
between the drain and the body
forms a depletion region with length
Ld’ that increases with Vdb. The
depletion region effectively shorten
the channel length to: Leff = L – Ld’
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Subthreshold Conduction
The ideal transistor I-V model assumes current only flows
from source to drain when Vgs > Vt.
In real transistors, current doesn’t abruptly cut off below
threshold, but rather drop off exponentially
This leakage current when the transistor is nominally OFF
depends on:
process (eox, tox)
doping levels (NA, or ND)
device geometry (W, L)
temperature (T)
Subthreshold voltage (Vt)
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Junction Leakage
The p-n junctions between diffusion and the substrate or
well for diodes.
The well-to-substrate is another diode
Substrate and well are tied to GND and VDD to ensure
these diodes remain reverse biased
But, reverse biased diodes still conduct a small amount of
current that depends on:
Doping levels
Area and perimeter of the diffusion region
The diode voltage
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Tunneling
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Impact of non-ideal I-V effects
Threshold is a significant fraction of the supply voltage
Leakage is increased causing gates to
consume power when idle
limits the amount of time that data is retained
Leakage increases with temperature
Velocity saturation and mobility degradation
result in less current than expected at high voltage
No point in trying to use high VDD to achieve fast
transistors
Transistors in series partition the voltage across each
transistor thus experience less velocity saturation
Tend to be a little faster than a single transistor
Two nMOS in series deliver more than half the
current of a single nMOS transistor of the same
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Matching: same dimension and orientation
Pass Transistors
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Pass transistor Circuits
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Transmission gate ON resistance
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Tri-state Inverter
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Effective resistance of a transistor
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RC Values
Capacitance
C = Cg = Cs = Cd = 2 fF/mm of gate width
Values similar across many processes
Resistance
R 6 KW*mm in 0.6um process
Improves with shorter channel lengths
Unit transistors
May refer to minimum contacted device (4/2 l)
or maybe 1 mm wide device
Doesn’t matter as long as you are consistent
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RC Delay Models
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Switch level RC models
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Inverter Delay Estimate
Estimate the delay of a fanout-of-1 inverter
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delay = 6RC
Resistance of a unit transmission gate
The effective resistance of a transmission gate is the
parallel of the resistance of the two transistor
Approximately R in both directions
Transmission gates are commonly built using equal-sized
transistors
Boosting the size of the pMOS only slightly improve the
effective resistance while significantly increasing the
capacitance
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Summary
Models are only approximations to reality, not reality itself
Models cannot be perfectly accurate
Little value in using excessively complicated models, particularly
for hand calculations
To first order current is proportional to W/L
But, in modern transistors Leff is shorter than Ldrawn
Doubling the Ldrawn reduces current more than a factor of two
Two series transistors in a modern process deliver more than half
the current of a single transistor
Use Transmission gates in place of pass transistors
Transistor speed depends on the ratio of current to capacitance
Sources of capacitance (voltage dependents)
Gate capacitance
Diffusion capacitance
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Assume all transistor W / L ratios are as shown in below figure and the following transistor
and supply voltage characteristics:
b)
c)
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