ECE 558 Introduction to VLSI Design

ECE 658 (NTU IC742-A) VLSI Design Principles

Lecture 7 (Fall 2006)

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CMOS Logic Gates

• Converting from MOSFETs to Logic functions
• Voltage Transfer Characteristic Vout = f(Vin)
• The Inverter
• Noise Margins and the Regenerative Property
• Delay Modelling
• The Ring Oscillator: A test structure for delay characterization
• Power Dissipation: Peak, Average

Coming up in next lecture

• Complementary Static Gates