02206 Design of Integrated Circuits
Plan for Lectures 5 through 7:
Circuit Characterization

Lecture 5: Circuit Characterization : Interconnect

Purpose: To describe how to estimate internal parasitics

Contents:

Resistances
Capacitances
Inductances
The Schichmann-Hodges model

Literature::

Neil Weste, Sections 4.1 - 4.3
Design Rules for a 0.18 micron CMOS process

Lecture 6: Circuit Characterization : Transfer Characteristics

Purpose: To describe how to estimate transfer characteristics

Contents:

The equivalent inverter
t_r, t_f, t_dr, t_df
The Penfield-Rubinstein model
Transistor dimensioning
Power consumption

Literature::

Neil Weste, Sections 4.4 - 4.13.2

Lecture 7: Circuit Characterization : Circuit Analysis

Purpose: To introduce Spice for circuit simulation

Contents:

Circuit analysis - in general
Modelling the MOS transistor
Spice simulation examples

Literature::

Neil Weste, Sections 2.11 and 4.3.4

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