Title :
Correlations of MOSFET transconductance: Its physical origins and relevance to analog MOSFET modeling and operation
Author :
Luo, Zhijiong ; Shapira, Shye ; Stiles, Kevin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
fDate :
3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The correlations of MOSFET transconductance across the full operating regime were studied on a statistically significant number of devices. This is to our knowledge the first time such a measurement is reported. We present "device operation phase diagrams" summarizing our findings: there are only a few, typically two, highly intracorrelated regions of the transconductances in the Vg - Vd plane. The diagrams aid analog design by clearly depicting the relative process induced variations of the transconductance between any two operating points. Though crucial for analog design, this correlation structure is not typically captured, nor to our knowledge understood, by circuit design and modeling methodologies. The results also suggest that in order to track, at production, the transconductance process induced variations in the full MOSFET operating regime, it is sufficient to select only a few operating points, sampling each intracorrelated region. Finally, a simple, physics based picture is presented, tracing the origin of the correlation patterns back to the variations of a few physical process parameters common to all modern technologies. We can therefore predict our observations are general, and will extend beyond the 0.25-μm technology we examined.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MOSFET; correlation methods; electric admittance; integrated circuit design; semiconductor device models; 0.25 micron; CMOS analog integrated circuits; MOSFET transconductance correlations; analog MOSFET modeling; analog design; correlation structure; device operation phase diagrams; full operating regime; highly intracorrelated regions; intracorrelated region sampling; physical origins; physics based picture; process induced variations; transconductance process induced variations; Analog integrated circuits; Circuit synthesis; Integrated circuit technology; MOSFET circuits; Physics; Production; Sampling methods; Semiconductor process modeling; Time measurement; Transconductance;
Journal_Title :
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TED.2003.811391