Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.012 Microelectronic Devices and Circuits Spring 2007 March 16, 2007 - Homework #4 Due - March 23, 2007 _____________________________________________________________ Problem 1 Consider the CMOS inverter pictured below. Take channel length modulation into account. Parameter NMOS PMOS VTO 0.5 V -0.5 V µ 220 cm2/Vs 110 cm2/Vs λ 0.1 V-1 0.1 V-1 Tox 15 nm 15 nm • Dimensions of W and L are in µm a) Calculate VM, the voltage midpoint. b) Calculate AV, the voltage gain at Vin=VM. c) Calculate NML and NMH, the noise margin low and noise margin high. d) Calculate tPHL and tPLH, the propagation delay from high-to-low and propagation delay from low-to-high.Problem 2 We will now use the following SPICE model and compare our hand calculations from Problem 1 with simulated results. .MODEL N15 NMOS LEVEL=1 VT0=0.5 TOX=1.5e-8 U0=220 LAMBDA=1.0e-1 +GAMMA=0.6 CJ=1e-4 CJSW=5e-10 PB=0.95 .MODEL P15 PMOS LEVEL=1 VT0=-0.5 TOX=1.5e-8 U0=110 LAMBDA=1.0e-1 +GAMMA=0.6 CJ=3e-4 CJSW=3.5e-10 PB=0.9 a) Use the DC sweep on the input voltage to simulate transfer characteristics using SPICE. Compare VM, AV, NML, NMH, with the calculated results. b) Use the Pulse input to simulate an input waveform shown below using SPICE. Compare tPHL and tPLH with your hand calculations. Problem 3 Consider the circuit below, which consists of an NMOS device and resistor load. Disregard channel length modulation for this problem. a) Calculate VM, VOH, VOL. Remember, for hand calculations we assume VOH=VMAX, and VOL=VMIN. b) Calculate the voltage gain of this circuit, when Vin=VM.Problem 4 Consider the circuit below, which consists of an NMOS device and PMOS current source load. Do not neglect channel length modulation. a) Calculate the width of the PMOS device so its saturation current is 50µA. b) Calculate VM, VOH, VOL. Remember, for hand calculations we assume VOH=VMAX, and VOL=VMIN. c) Calculate the voltage gain of this circuit, when
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