Category Archives: MOS Models

Gm/ID versus IC

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Dai

According to the EKV model, the inversion coefficient, IC, is defined by the ratio of drain current to a specified drain current, IDSspec, where VGS-VT = 2n*kT/q [1]. In order to know the IC, I have to set up a separate testbench to … Continue reading →

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Go Moderate

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Dai

Either Prof. Sansen’s inversion coefficient (IC) approach or Prof. Murmann’s Gm/Id design methodology is telling the same story of power-aware analog design. With the help of Gm/Id design kit, I can easily visualize the transistor performance as a function of its gate-source voltage … Continue reading →

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Gm/Id-Design Methodology

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Dai

Three times of entering a wrong password to access this site… Earlier in 2012, I wrote an introductory post about EKV model and later extended the related topic a little bit in another post – Stay Simple – Square-Law Equation … Continue reading →

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Stay Simple – Square-Law Equation Related

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Dai

The 1st post in 2013. Happy middle new year! 😉 Nowadays most of us in academy are designing analog circuits in deep-submicron nodes using short-channel transistors. Putting them together with the digital, building up a system, and selling it with extraordinary performance in top … Continue reading →

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The EKV MOS Model

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Dai

Recently I’m referring some papers about low-voltage amplifiers. I came to know the EKV MOS model, which is mainly dedicated to low-voltage and low-current analog design. Then I read a short history of the EKV model written by one of … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Tutorial Given by Mr. Matching

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dai

Are you familiar with this seminal paper, titled “Matching Properties of MOS Transistors” with the first author Marcel Pelgrom? Yes! Pelgrom, the Mr. Matching! I happened to find an online tutorial dealing with component matching given by him from IDESA. … Continue reading →

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3D KungFu Transistor

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dai

I watched 3D Kung Fu Panda 2 last Sunday. Yeah, 3D! I still remember the state of great excitement the first time when I sat in a cinema for a 3D movie 18 years ago, watching a huge stone running … Continue reading →

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