IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design - Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology
Layout-Aware Variability Characterization of CMOS Current Sources
Bo LIUBo YANGShigetoshi NAKATAKE
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2012 Volume E95.C Issue 4 Pages 696-705

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Current sources are essential components for analog circuit designs, the mismatch of which causes the significant degradation of the circuit performance. This paper addresses the mismatch model of CMOS current sources, unlike the conventional modeling, focusing on the layout- and λ-dependency of the process variation, where λ is the output conductance parameter. To make it clear what variation parameter influences the mismatch, we implemented a test chip on 90nm process technology, where we can collect the characteristics variation data for MOSFETs of various layouts. The test chip also includes D/A converters to check the differential non-linearity (DNL) caused by the mismatch of current sources when behaving as a DAC. Identifying the variation and the circuit-level errors in the measured DNLs, we reveal that our model can more accurately account for the current variation compared to the conventional mismatch model.

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