MOSFET model with a small set of parameters for electronic engineering education

Adequate and understandable MOSFET models are presently a must for the design of integrated circuits. Most of the existing MOSFET models, however, are too complex and/or do not comply with basic principles of physics. We propose here the use of ACM model, a very simple transistor model, together with a set of easily implemented experiments to determine the ACM parameters for the training of students for integrated circuit design. The use of the ACM model by our students has allowed them to easily correlate the model parameters and the electrical characteristics of MOSFETs.