Course 658: Presentation of Lab 1 by Thomas Kunkel

Designing and simulating a NAND gate




Task
Logic Design
Circuit Design
Layout
Circuit Optimization

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Circuit Layout

Using the values taken from the simulation the layout looks like this:


This straight design contains two parallel PMOS transistors sharing the output terminal and two series NMOS transistors having the two gates across the same p-area. When simulating this circuit you get transistion times like this:


The worst case high to low transition takes 266ps and the worst case low to high transistion takes 256ps. This is better than needed.