Lab 7: Cmos inverter layout and Design Rules

Objectives:

To familiarize the student the student to the basic CMOS layout concepts and the MOSIS scalable CMOS design rules .

Part A: Inverter layout

Bring up the Cadence CIW window and create a new library 'lab7' (or open the existing library lab7 ). Create a new cellview "inverter" of type 'layout' under the lab7 library.

Do the layout for a CMOS inverter using the Cadence -Virtuoso tool suite. You can refer to this  inverter layout.Use transistor sizes of 2.4u/0.6u for the PMOS transistor and 1.2u/0.6u for the NMOS transistor. Use a  metal1 width of10 lambda for the power buses VCC and VSS.   For this part,  it is not necessary that your layout be compact but thelayout should be functional and design rule error free. We are using scn05hp technology for which lambda is 0.3u.

Part B: Design Rule Exercise

Figure 1 is a sketch of a CMOS circuit. Assume the minimum dimensions from the MOSIS design rules -- unless otherwise noted below. Use W=12 lambda and L=2 lambda for all transistors. Use a metal width of 8 lambda for the power buses, Vdd and Gnd. Use a poly interconnect pitch of 8 lambda in the channel region. Define the reference point at the center of the left source contact of the PMOS transistor as shown. Problems 1-10: What are the co-ordinates of the points indicated relative to the reference points provided. The numbers refer to the center of the contacts of vias except for #7 and #8 which refer to the end of the poly lines. Provide your answers in terms of lambda.
 
 

Problem Coordinate # relative to Coordinate #
1 12 relative to 1
2 2 relative to 1
3 3 relative to 12
4 4 relative to 1
5 5 relative to 2
6 6 relative to 4
7 7 relative to 6
8 8 relative to 7
9 9 relative to 6
10 10 relative to 6

Part C: Layout Exercise

Create a new cellview "design_rules" of type layout under the lab7 library for part B. For the CMOS circuit shown in Figure 1, create the same layout in Cadence.  Be sure to include your name on your circuit. Use the coordinates/dimensions which you determined in the previous section. Use minimum dimensions every where unless specified otherwise. Your circuit MUST pass  DRC.

Part D: Function

What function does the layout above represent? Explain how you arrived at this conclusion i.e., explain how the circuit works, what is each transistor doing during certain inputs and how does this effect the output.


 

To turn in:

1. A  plot of your inverter layout for part A
2. Your answers to the design rule exercise of part B
3. A plot of the layout for part C
4. Answer to part D