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[Inquiry about sweep of threshold voltage for MOSFET during simulation]

Sourav Chakraborty
Sourav Chakraborty 2 months ago

How can I sweep threshold voltage (Vth) values in a Cadence Virtuoso IC6.1.8-64b.500.20 schematic, while running both Transient and AC analyses?

I am using Cadence Virtuoso version 6.1.8-64b, sub-version IC6.1.8-64b.500.20, and I would like to analyze how varying the threshold voltage (Vth) of a MOSFET affects my circuit's performance under both transient and AC analysis.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett 2 months ago

    How easy this is to do probably depends on the PDK you're using and the models for the transistor. For example, bsim4 has an instance parameter called delvto which allows you to shift the zero-bias threshold voltage. It's probably fairly unlikely that your PDK exposes this parameter on the device instance though - if it did, you could use parameterisation in ADE to sweep this.

    Failing that, you might need to add a variable sweep to vary a parameter in the models for the device (e.g. vtho or vth0 in bsim4). Again, your models many not have a parameter assigned for this which can be swept - so you might need to edit the models to change this.

    Of course, it's a slightly questionable activity if you don't have control over the threshold voltage in the process...

    Andrew

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