Study and comparison of CMOS layouts for applications in analog circuits

This study presents different layouts techniques (serpentine, concentric, interdigitated) applied to a differential amplifier designed in commercial technology CMOS (0.6 μm). It was observed that serpentine technique improves by 6 to 7 electrical parameters, where area was reduced (64%) and power co...

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Autores: MONICO LINARES ARANDA, CARLOS ZUÑIGA ISLAS
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/2124
Acceso en línea:http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/2124
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Integrated circuit (IC)
info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Layout
info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Operational amplifier
info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Serpentine
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/22
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2203
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Sumario:This study presents different layouts techniques (serpentine, concentric, interdigitated) applied to a differential amplifier designed in commercial technology CMOS (0.6 μm). It was observed that serpentine technique improves by 6 to 7 electrical parameters, where area was reduced (64%) and power consumption diminishes until a 57% with respect to conventional technique. Thus designer can optimally use different abstraction levels during integrated circuits (IC) design, by applying the best layout technique towards efficient systems.