Abstract

This work, for the first time, estimates the influence of intrinsic-parameter fluctuations consisting of the metal-gate work-function fluctuation (WKF), the oxide-thickness fluctuation (OTF), the process-variation effect (PVE), and the random-dopant fluctuation (RDF) on 16-nm-gate complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices and circuit. Experimentally calibrated 3D device / circuit coupled simulation allows us to evaluate the effect of aforementioned fluctuations on CMOS devices' characteristics. Their impacts on the driving current of current mirror circuits are then explored. Variability suppression on RDF according to asymmetric doping profile engineering is thus advanced to mitigate the fluctuation. The normalized driving current fluctuations of current mirror circuit are reduced from 8.43% to 4.66% for the current mirror circuit made by NMOS and from 8.51% to 5.54% for the current mirror circuit made by PMOS, respectively. Furthermore, bulk FinFETs with an aspect ratio of 2 are implemented for suppressing these fluctuations.

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