Experiment 5

Sukrit Chatterjee, E19ECE039

Circuit used for experiment — Assymmetric CMOS Inverter

Experiment 5 1
 VTC and noise margin analysis

∂Vout
VOH , VIH , VIL  and VOL are taken where the slope, ∂Vin = −1.

VOH VIH VIL VOL

1.92 0.885 0.554 0.137

NM H = VOH − VIH = 1.035V

NM L = VIL − VOL = 0.417V
A noise margin of at least 25% of the supply voltage is desired so as to avoid any
possible noisy signal situations, but below 20% is not acceptable. The low noise
margin just passes the 20% mark.

Experiment 5 2
 Red - 300n, Green - 450n, Purple - 600n, Teal - 750n, Pink - 900n, Grey - 1.05u

We can observe that since the curve is shifting right (while increasing width of
the MOSFETs) with almost unchanged VOH and VOL , NM H (noise margin
high) reduces slightly by about 4% when W = 1μm while NM L (noise margin
low) increases significantly by 13.6% when with the same width increase.

Experiment 5 3
 Rise Time and Fall Time

Rise time = 588ps

Fall time = 739ps

Here although for same width, the PMOS should offer higher resistance and then fall
time should be less than the rise time, the fall time is limited by CL .

Experiment 5 4
 Propagation delays

.meas t1 FIND time WHEN V(V-in)=1V RISE=1

.meas t2 FIND time WHEN V(V-out)=1V FALL=1
.meas t_rise_delay param t1-t2

.meas t3 FIND time WHEN V(V-in)=1V FALL=1

.meas t4 FIND time WHEN V(V-out)=1V RISE=1
.meas t_fall_delay param t4-t3

Width (nm) τphl   (ns) τplh  (ns) τp  (ns)

300 0.4759 0.6707 0.5733

600 0.4083 0.6313 0.5198

900 0.3812 0.6129 0.4971

1200 0.3674 0.6046 0.4860

From the above table we conclude that propagation delay decrease with
increase in width of MOSFETs.

Experiment 5 5
 Power

Red - 300n, Green - 450n, Purple - 600n, Teal - 750n, Pink - 900n, Grey - 1.05u

We can observe that both average and peak power increased when W is
increased.

Experiment 5 6
 Red : -20 C, Green : 0 C, Purple : 20 C, Teal : 40 C, Pink : 60 C, Grey : 80 C

Red : -20 C, Green : 0 C, Purple : 20 C, Teal : 40 C, Pink : 60 C, Grey : 80 C

Effect of temperature — The current decreases with increase in temperatures

while the VTC shifts left at higher temperatures.

Experiment 5 7