VLSI Design

(MEL G621)

Lecture 4: Static
NMOS/CMOS Inverter:
VTC

EEE & ECE Department

BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus

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 Scopes & Objectives

• Voltage Transfer Characteristics

of CMOS Inverter
• Performance measure of CMOS
Inverter

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 Digital Logic Design

• nMOS transistor and its switch model

• pMOS transistor and its switch model

• Transfer of Logic level by nMOS and pMOS

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 CMOS Logic Design
• Realization of any Boolean logic function

• CMOS logic circuit design using PUN and PDN

• CMOS inverter

• Logic realization using CMOS

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 VTC for CMOS Inverter

• Vary input voltage slowly and note output

• Divide the regions based on the ON/OFF

regions

• Compare it with the ideal inverter

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 Performance Measure
• Deviation from the ideal characteristic

• Effect in the performance

• Noise margins

• Noise margin as a measure of performance

• Noise accumulation

• Other metrics

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