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Threshold voltage calculation

aravindkvarier
aravindkvarier over 11 years ago
Sir, can you specify the steps required for calculating the exact threshold voltage of an NMOS device?
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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 11 years ago

    What do you mean by the "exact threshold voltage"? Most devices output this as an operating point parameter - for example, if you do "spectre -h bsim4" you'll see a section labelled "Operating Point Parameters" and within that you have:

     Operating Point Parameters
    ==========================

    1       region=triode     Estimated operating region. Spectre outputs the number (0-4) in a rawfile. Possible values are
                              off, triode, sat, subth, and breakdown.
    ...
    9       vgb (V)           Gate-bulk voltage.
    10      vth (V)           Threshold voltage (alias=lv9).
    11      vdsat (V)         Drain-source saturation voltage (alias=lv10).
    12      gm (S)            Common-source transconductance (alias=lx7).
    13      gds (S)           Common-source output conductance (alias=lx8).
    14      gmbs (S)          Body-transconductance (alias=lx9).

    So if you do a DC operating point analysis (assuming you're using spectre, you didn't say) in ADE (again, you didn't say if you're using the Analog Design Environment), you can then do a Results->Print->Operating Point and click on the device in the schematic and look at the vth. Or you could annotate the operating point parameters on the schematic and by using the Edit->Component Display in the schematic or View->Annotation... menu (in IC616 onwards) you can choose what gets annotated.

    Whether the model's implementation of vth is what you're expecting or not by "exact threshold voltage" is another question!

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Rujie Zhao
    Rujie Zhao over 5 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    It helps.

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  • Rujie Zhao
    Rujie Zhao over 5 years ago in reply to Rujie Zhao

    how can we check a and Km value when we calculate Vth? Thanks

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 5 years ago in reply to Rujie Zhao

    First of all, please don't post a new question in a 6 year old thread - please see Guidelines for the RF Design Forum

    Secondly, what are a and Km? I've no idea what you're referring to.

    Andrew.

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