VLSI Design
(MEL G621)
Lecture 4: Static
NMOS/CMOS Inverter:
VTC
EEE & ECE Department
BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus
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Scopes & Objectives
• Voltage Transfer Characteristics
of CMOS Inverter
• Performance measure of CMOS
Inverter
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Digital Logic Design
• nMOS transistor and its switch model
• pMOS transistor and its switch model
• Transfer of Logic level by nMOS and pMOS
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CMOS Logic Design
• Realization of any Boolean logic function
• CMOS logic circuit design using PUN and PDN
• CMOS inverter
• Logic realization using CMOS
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VTC for CMOS Inverter
• Vary input voltage slowly and note output
• Divide the regions based on the ON/OFF
regions
• Compare it with the ideal inverter
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Performance Measure
• Deviation from the ideal characteristic
• Effect in the performance
• Noise margins
• Noise margin as a measure of performance
• Noise accumulation
• Other metrics
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