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THE INVERTERS. DIGITAL GATES Fundamental Parameters. Functionality Reliability, Robustness Area Performance Speed (delay) Power Consumption Energy. Noise in Digital Integrated Circuits. DC Operation: Voltage Transfer Characteristic. Mapping between analog and digital signals.
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DIGITAL GATES Fundamental Parameters • Functionality • Reliability, Robustness • Area • Performance • Speed (delay) • Power Consumption • Energy
V DD PMOS Metal1 Polysilicon NMOS CMOS Inverters 1.2 m m =2l Out In GND
CMOS Properties • Full rail-to-rail swing • Symmetrical VTC • Propagation delay function of load capacitance and resistance of transistors • No static power dissipation • Direct path current during switching
I Dn V = V -V in DD GSp I = - I Dn Dp V = V -V out DD DSp V out I I I Dp Dn Dn V =0 V =0 in in V =3 V =3 in in V V V DSp DSp out V =-2 GSp V =-5 GSp V = V -V V = V -V in DD GSp out DD DSp I = - I Dn Dp PMOS Load Lines
V DD PMOS Metal1 Polysilicon NMOS CMOS Inverters 1.2 m m =2l Out In GND
Vdd Vin Vout C L Dynamic Power Dissipation 2 Energy/transition = C * V L dd 2 Power = Energy/transition * f = C * V * f L dd Not a function of transistor sizes! Need to reduce C , V , and f to reduce power. L dd
Technology Scaling (1) Minimum Feature Size
Technology Scaling (2) Number of components per chip
VTC of RTL Inverter VOH is function of fan-out