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EE4800 CMOS Digital IC Design & Analysis 

EE4800 CMOS Digital IC Design & Analysis . Lecture 3 MOS Transistor Device Characteristics Zhuo Feng. Outline. Introduction MOS Capacitor NMOS I-V Characteristics PMOS I-V Characteristics Gate and Diffusion Capacitance Nonideal Transistor Behavior Process and Environmental Variations.

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EE4800 CMOS Digital IC Design & Analysis 

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  1. EE4800 CMOS Digital IC Design & Analysis  Lecture 3 MOS Transistor Device Characteristics Zhuo Feng

  2. Outline • Introduction • MOS Capacitor • NMOS I-V Characteristics • PMOS I-V Characteristics • Gate and Diffusion Capacitance • Nonideal Transistor Behavior • Process and Environmental Variations

  3. Introduction • So far, we have treated transistors as ideal switches • An ON transistor passes a finite amount of current • Depends on terminal voltages • Derive current-voltage (I-V) relationships • Transistor gate, source, drain all have capacitance • I = C (DV/Dt) -> Dt = (C/I) DV • Capacitance and current determine speed • Also explore what a “degraded level” really means

  4. MOS Capacitor • Gate and body form MOS capacitor • Operating modes • Accumulation • Depletion • Inversion

  5. Terminal Voltages • Mode of operation depends on Vg, Vd, Vs • Vgs = Vg – Vs • Vgd = Vg – Vd • Vds = Vd – Vs = Vgs - Vgd • Source and drain are symmetric diffusion terminals • By convention, source is terminal at lower voltage • Hence Vds 0 • NMOS body is grounded. First assume source is 0 too. • Three regions of operation • Cutoff • Linear • Saturation

  6. NMOS Cutoff • No channel • Ids = 0

  7. NMOS Linear • Channel forms • Current flows from d to s • e- from s to d • Ids increases with Vds • Similar to linear resistor

  8. NMOS Saturation • Channel pinches off • Ids independent of Vds • We say current saturates • Similar to current source

  9. I-V Characteristics • In Linear region, Ids depends on • How much charge is in the channel? • How fast is the charge moving?

  10. 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 Cox = eox / tox Vgc=(Vgs+Vgd)/2 =Vgs-Vds /2

  11. Carrier velocity • Charge is carried by e- • Carrier velocity vproportional to lateral E-field between source and drain • v = mE (m is called mobility) • E = Vds/L • Time for carrier to cross channel: • t = L / v

  12. NMOS Linear I-V • Now we know • How much charge Qchannelis in the channel • How much time teach carrier takes to cross

  13. NMOS Saturation I-V • If Vgd < Vt, channel pinches off near drain • When Vds > Vdsat = Vgs – Vt • Now drain voltage no longer increases current

  14. NMOS I-V Summary • Shockley 1st order transistor models (long-channel)

  15. Example • We consider a 0.6 mm process • From AMI Semiconductor • tox = 100 Å • m = 350 cm2/V*s • Vt = 0.7 V • Plot Ids vs. Vds • Vgs = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 • Use W/L = 4/2 l

  16. PMOS I-V • All dopings and voltages are inverted for PMOS • Mobility mp is determined by holes • Typically 2-3x lower than that of electrons mn • 120 cm2/V*s in AMI 0.6 mm process • Thus PMOS must be wider to provide same current • In this class, assume mn / mp = 2 • *** plot I-V here

  17. Capacitance • Any two conductors separated by an insulator have capacitance • Gate to channel capacitor is very important • Creates channel charge necessary for operation • Source and drain have capacitance to body • Across reverse-biased diodes • Called diffusion capacitance because it is associated with source/drain diffusion

  18. Gate Capacitance • Approximate channel as connected to source • Cgs = eoxWL/tox = CoxWL = CpermicronW (minimum L) • Cpermicron is typically about 2 fF/mm

  19. Diffusion Capacitance • Csb, Cdb • Undesirable, called parasitic capacitance • Capacitance depends on area and perimeter • Use small diffusion nodes • Comparable to Cg for contacted diff • ½ Cg for uncontacted • Varies with process

  20. Ideal vs. Simulated nMOS I-V Plot • 65 nm IBM process, VDD = 1.0 V

  21. ON and OFF Current • Ion = Ids @ Vgs = Vds = VDD • Saturation • Ioff = Ids @ Vgs = 0, Vds = VDD • Cutoff

  22. Electric Fields Effects • Vertical electric field: Evert = Vgs / tox • Attracts carriers into channel • Long channel: Qchannel Evert • Lateral electric field: Elat = Vds / L • Accelerates carriers from drain to source • Long channel: v = mElat

  23. Mobility Degradation • High Evert effectively reduces mobility • Collisions with oxide interface

  24. Velocity Saturation • At high Elat, carrier velocity rolls off • Carriers scatter off atoms in silicon lattice • Velocity reaches vsat • Electrons: 107 cm/s • Holes: 8 x 106 cm/s • Better model

  25. Vel Sat I-V Effects • Ideal transistor ON current increases with VDD2 • Velocity-saturated ON current increases with VDD • Real transistors are partially velocity saturated • Approximate with a-power law model • Ids VDDa • 1 < a < 2 determined empirically (≈ 1.3 for 65 nm)

  26. a-Power Model

  27. Channel Length Modulation • Reverse-biased p-n junctions form a depletion region • Region between n and p with no carriers • Width of depletion Ld region grows with reverse bias • Leff = L – Ld • Shorter Leff gives more current • Idsincreases with Vds • Even in saturation

  28. Channel Length Modulation • l = channel length modulation coefficient • not feature size • Empirically fit to I-V characteristics

  29. Threshold Voltage Effects • Vt is Vgs for which the channel starts to invert • Ideal models assumed Vt is constant • Really depends (weakly) on almost everything else: • Body voltage: Body Effect • Drain voltage: Drain-Induced Barrier Lowering • Channel length: Short Channel Effect

  30. Body Effect • Body is a fourth transistor terminal • Vsb affects the charge required to invert the channel • Increasing Vs or decreasing Vb increases Vt • fs = surface potential at threshold • Depends on doping level NA • And intrinsic carrier concentration ni • g = body effect coefficient

  31. Short Channel Effect • In small transistors, source/drain depletion regions extend into the channel • Impacts the amount of charge required to invert the channel • And thus makes Vt a function of channel length • Short channel effect: Vt increases with L • Some processes exhibit a reverse short channel effect in which Vt decreases with L

  32. Leakage • What about current in cutoff? • Simulated results • What differs? • Current doesn’t go to 0 in cutoff

  33. Leakage Sources • Subthreshold conduction • Transistors can’t abruptly turn ON or OFF • Dominant source in contemporary transistors • Gate leakage • Tunneling through ultrathin gate dielectric • Junction leakage • Reverse-biased PN junction diode current

  34. Subthreshold Leakage • Subthreshold leakage exponential with Vgs • n is process dependent • typically 1.3-1.7 • Rewrite relative to Ioff on log scale • S ≈ 100 mV/decade @ room temperature

  35. Gate Leakage • Carriers tunnel thorough very thin gate oxides • Exponentially sensitive to tox and VDD • A and B are tech constants • Greater for electrons • So nMOS gates leak more • Negligible for older processes (tox > 20 Å) • Critically important at 65 nm and below (tox≈ 10.5 Å) From [Song01]

  36. Junction Leakage • Reverse-biased p-n junctions have some leakage • Ordinary diode leakage • Band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) • Gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) • Is depends on doping levels • And area and perimeter of diffusion regions • Typically < 1 fA/mm2 (negligible)

  37. Temperature Sensitivity • Increasing temperature • Reduces mobility • Reduces Vt • IONdecreases with temperature • IOFFincreases with temperature

  38. So What? • So what if transistors are not ideal? • They still behave like switches. • But these effects matter for… • Supply voltage choice • Logical effort • Quiescent power consumption • Pass transistors • Temperature of operation

  39. Parameter Variation • Transistors have uncertainty in parameters • Process: Leff, Vt, tox of nMOS and pMOS • Vary around typical (T) values • Fast (F) • Leff: short • Vt: low • tox: thin • Slow (S): opposite • Not all parameters are independent for nMOS and pMOS

  40. Environmental Variation • VDD and T also vary in time and space • Fast: • VDD: high • T: low

  41. Process Corners • Process corners describe worst case variations • If a design works in all corners, it will probably work for any variation. • Describe corner with four letters (T, F, S) • nMOS speed • pMOS speed • Voltage • Temperature

  42. Important Corners • Some critical simulation corners include

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