Week -1

1) What is the Vds-saturation voltage for an NMOS transistor of 400 nm width, and biased
with Vds of 0.5V, and Vgs of 1V, for 65 nm technology short channel current model?
a) 0.55 V
b) 0.85 V
c) 0.418 V
d) 0.35 V
e) 0.87 V
f) 0.57 V
g) 0.7 V
h) 0.2 V

2) What is the current generated from an PMOS transistor of Width 400 nm, for a 65 nm
technology node (channel length = 50nm) considering mobility of 40 cm2/V-sec? Consider
the PMOS is biased to Vds of -1V, and Vgs of -1V. The current for a PMOS of 200 nm Width
is 128.9 µA.
a) 257.8 µA
b) 128.9 µA
c) 112.8 µA
d) 688.9 µA
e) 128.9 mA
f) 112.8 mA
g) 688.9 mA
h) 257.8 mA

3) What is the current generated from an NMOS transistor of Width 200 nm, for a 65 nm
technology node (channel length = 50nm) considering mobility of 80 cm2/V-sec? Consider
the NMOS is biased to Vds of 1V, and Vgs of 1V. The current for a NMOS of 100 nm Width
is 128.9 µA.
a) 257.8 µA
b) 128.9 µA
c) 112.8 µA
d) 688.9 µA
e) 128.9 mA
f) 112.8 mA
g) 688.9 mA
h) 257.8 mA

4) For an N-cascaded NMOS pass transistors where all the gates are tied to 1V, and 0.9V is
applied as an input, what is the output of the cascaded N-Pass transistors?
a) (0.9N) V.
b) (N) V
c) 0.7 V
d) 0.3 V
e) -.0.7 V
 f) -0.3 V
g) 1.3 V
h) 1.7 V

5) For an N-cascaded PMOS pass transistors where all the gates are tied to 0V, and 0.8V is
applied as an input, what is the output of the cascaded N-Pass transistors?
a) 0.8N.
b) N
c) 0.7V
d) 0.3V
e) -.0.7V
f) -0.3V
g) 1.3V
h) 0.8V

6) Mobility degradation observed in short channel mos devices is due to

a) decrease in channel length
b) decrease in oxide thickness
c) velocity saturation
d) Pinch off at drain region
e) increase in oxide thickness
f) Threshold voltage decreases
g) Threshold voltage increases
h) increase in channel length

7) For an N-cascaded NMOS pass transistors where all the gates are tied to 1V, and 0.8V is
applied as an input, what is the output of the cascaded N-Pass transistors?
a) (0.8 N) V.
b) (N) V
c) 0.7 V
d) 0.3 V
e) -.0.7 V
f) -0.3 V
g) 1.3 V
h) 1.7 V

8) Find the voltage Vx (assume Vtn = 0.3V)

a) 1V
b) 0.7V
 c) 0.4V
d) 0V
e) –0.3
f) -0.4V
g) High Impedance
h) Cannot be determined

9) As For an N-cascaded PMOS pass transistors where all the gates are tied to 0V, and 0.9V is
applied as an input, what is the output of the cascaded N-Pass transistors?
a) 0.9N.
b) N
c) 0.7V
d) 0.3V
e) -.0.7V
f) -0.3V
g) 1.3V
h) 0.9 V

10) For a nmosfet with positive constant drain voltage, as the gate voltage is swept from 0 to V
(where V >> Vtn), the regions of operations experienced by the device is in the order
a) cutoff → saturation → linear
b) cutoff → linear → saturation
c) linear → saturation → cutoff
d) linear → cutoff → saturation
e) saturation → linear → cutoff
f) saturation → cutoff → linear
g) linear → cutoff → linear
h) cutoff → linear → cutoff

Solution:
1) c) 0.418V
( ) . ( . )
Vds,sat = = = 0.418𝑉
. .

2) a) 257.8µA
Considering all the other parameters for both the mosfet to be same, current is directly
proportional to the width.
= => I400nm = 2 x 128.9 = 257.8µA

3) a) 257.8µA
Considering all the other parameters for both the mosfet to be same, current is directly
proportional to the width.
= => I200nm = 2 x 128.9 = 257.8µA
4) c) 0.7V

NMOS passes weak 1.

5) h) 0.8

PMOS passes a strong 1.

6) b) decrease in oxide thickness

As the oxide thickness decreases, the vertical electric field due to the gate voltage increases,
causing collision of charge carriers at Si-SiO2 interface. This causes mobility degradation.

7) c) 0.7V

NMOS passes weak 1.

8) c) 0.4V

Here, the mosfets will conduct as long as they are ON.

M1 will conduct as long as Vgs1 > Vtn. So, Vs1 < 0.7V.
 Similarly, Vs2 = 0.4V and Vx is 0.4V

9) h) 0.9V

PMOS passes strong 1.

10) a) cutoff → saturation → linear

i. Initially, when Vgs is below the threshold voltage (Vtn), the device is in the cutoff
region, and no significant drain current flows.
ii. As Vgs increases slightly beyond Vtn, the NMOSFET enters saturation region,
because Vds>Vgs-Vtn.
iii. Finally, when Vgs is sufficiently high, the device enters linear region, when
Vds<Vgs-Vtn