Abstract

CMOS bulk and SOS technologies are discussed for VLSI with emphasis on static and dynamic characteristics of two-input NAND gates. Optimum performance (minimum figure of merit FM = t <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">pd</inf> P <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">d</inf> ) is obtained for a CMOS/SOS two-input NAND gate (FO = 2, C <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">L</inf> = 22 fF) with an electrical channel length L = 0.75 µm, channel width W = 5.0 µm, and oxide thickness X <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">o</inf> = 450 Å with V <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DD</inf> = 3.0 V, to yield t <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">pd</inf> = 400 ps and P <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">d</inf> = 250 µW (t <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">pd</inf> P <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">d</inf> = 100 fJ) at room temperature. Bulk technology performs within a factor of 2 of SOS for t <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">pd</inf> and P <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">d</inf> . CMOS technologies offer subnanosecond propagation delays, similar to ECL bipolar, at the low submilliwatt power levels of CMOS. An analytical expression for t <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">pd</inf> describes the performance of two-input NAND gates in terms of device modeling and fabrication parameters. Such an expression provides a hierarchial modeling approach to characterize minicells for VLSI.

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