A New Test Chip for CMOS Manufacturing Laboratory Courses at RIT

This paper describes a new CMOS test chip which will be fabricated by students in required CMOS Manufacturing courses in Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) undergraduate and graduate programs in Microelectronic Engineering. It will be used to expand CMOS technology and verify operation of analog and digital components. Also, the test chip includes a variety of CMOS compatible sensors and signal processing electronics which are necessary to be mounted on the same platform in order to generate basic or complex microsystems. A section of the chip is used for evaluating manufacturing process and transistor parametric characterization. Other sections have basic digital and analog circuits, chip scale packaging designs, and MEMS components.