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1 (a)
Consider a MOS capacitor made on p - type substrate with a doping of 1016/cm3. The SIO2 thickness is 500 Ao and the metal gate is made up of aluminium. Calculate the minimum capacitance at threshold.
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1 (b)
An NMOS with VT of 1.5 V is operated as VGS=5V and IDS=100 ?A. Determine if the MOSFET is in the linear region or saturation region. Assume that K= 20?A/V2.
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1 (c)
Consider a resistive load NMOS inverter with an output voltage of 0.2 V when the input is VOH=VDD=5V. Find the DC power dissipation of the circuit.
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1 (d)
Two critical voltage points on the voltage transfer characteristics of a realistic inverter are identified at points where the slope of VOUT and VIN characteristic becomes equal to -1?. Justify the selection of these critical voltage points based on the noise considerations.
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1 (e)
Explain the layout design rule for minimum gate extension of polysilicon over active and the problems faced in case of violation of rule during fabrication. Draw appropriate diagrams.
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2 (a)
Explain the various parameters affecting the threshold voltage of a MOS structure. Also explain the influence of substrate bias and ion implantation (in the channel region) on the threshold voltage of the device.
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2 (b)
Consider an n-channel MOSFET at 300 K with the following parameters:
Channel length = 1.5 ?m, Channel doping = 1016/ cm3
Channel width = 25 ?m , Oxide thickness = 500 Ao
channel mobility ?n=600 cm2/Vs, Oxide charge =10-11 cm 2
Metal SC work function difference ?ms= -1.13V.
Calculate the saturation current of the device at the gate bias of 5V.
Channel length = 1.5 ?m, Channel doping = 1016/ cm3
Channel width = 25 ?m , Oxide thickness = 500 Ao
channel mobility ?n=600 cm2/Vs, Oxide charge =10-11 cm 2
Metal SC work function difference ?ms= -1.13V.
Calculate the saturation current of the device at the gate bias of 5V.
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3 (a)
Derive an expression for the switching voltage of a CMOS inverter. Design a CMOS inverter with a switching voltage of VDD/2.
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3 (b)
Draw the schematic and stick diagram of a 2 ? input CMOS NOR gate and determine the sizes of the transistors such that it has approximately same tPLH and tPHLas an inverter with the following sizes.
(W/L)nmos = 0.5?m/0.25?m and (W/L)pmos = 1.5?m/0.25?m
(W/L)nmos = 0.5?m/0.25?m and (W/L)pmos = 1.5?m/0.25?m
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4 (a)
Design a two input NAND gate in NMOS technology based on a reference NMOS depletion load inverter with inverter ratio KR=4. Draw the stick diagram and mask layout of the circuit designed following the ? based design rules.
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4 (b)
Compare the passive and active loads in an NMOS inverter circuit stating their advantages and disadvantages.
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5 (a)
Explain the basic sequence for building a self aligned p-channel MOSFET with the help of appropriate diagrams.
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5 (b)
Implement circuit for 2:1 multiplexer using transmission gate logic and write Verilog module for the circuit designed.
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6 (a)
Compare and explain the effect of full scaling and constant voltage scaling MOSFET dimensions, potentials, doping densities and other key device characteristics.
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6 (b)
Implement of following boolean function in CMOS logic \[Y=\bar{\left(A+D+E\right),(C+B)}\]
Drow the stick diagram of the circuit and find an equivalent CMOS inverter circuit for simultaneously switching of all inputs, assumng that (W/L)p=15 for all PMOS transisters and (W/L)n=10 for all nmos transisters.
Drow the stick diagram of the circuit and find an equivalent CMOS inverter circuit for simultaneously switching of all inputs, assumng that (W/L)p=15 for all PMOS transisters and (W/L)n=10 for all nmos transisters.
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7 (a)
CMOS latch-up and its prevention
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7 (b)
MOS CV characteristics
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7 (c)
Short channel Effects
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