Sudharsan Engineering college, Pudukkottai

1. Unit 2
Inverters and Logic gates
Driving Large Capacitive Loads
Super Buffers

2. Driving Large Capacitive Loads
• Large capacitive loads arises when signals
must be propagated from the chip to off chip
destinations.
• Long buses
• CL >= 104
Cg(typically)
• This must be driven through low resistances,
• Else, will increase the delay (By increasing rise
and fall time), because, delay α CL

3. Contd..
• Three solutions
1. Cascading Inverters as drivers
2. Super Buffers
3. BiCMOS Drivers

4. Cascading Inverters as drivers

5. Contd..
• fopt= e (k +fopt )/ fopt
• k = Cd / Cg
Where Cd and Cg – Drain and Gate
Capacitance respectively.
• k – Varies according to technology
• Eg. For 1 um technology
• k = Cd / Cg = .0043 / .02 = 0.215
• Substitute different values for fopt in the above
equation and find the minimum value.
• fopt= 2.93 (approx = 3)

6. Graph to find the stage ratio value

7. Super Buffers
• Inverting buffer
• Non-inverting buffer

8. Inverting Super buffer

9. Operation
• Case (i) : Vin = 1
– Transistors T1 and T2 On
– Gate of T3 is pulled down to 0 (T3 = Off)
– T4 is On (Since the gate is connected to Vin)
– Hence the O/P is pulled down quickly.

10. Operation (Contd..)
• Case (ii) : Vin =0
– Transistor T2 is Off
– T4 is Off (Since the gate is connected to Vin)
– T3 is allowed to rise quickly to Vdd (On) as its gate
is connected Vdd by Transistor T1.
– As Vg is connected to Vdd and transistor assumes
twice the average gate to source voltage Vgs
(Since the channel exists already).
– Ids α Vgs (and hence charges the load quickly)
– Hence equal transition time for rise and fall time.

11. Non-Inverting Super Buffer

12. BiCMOS Drivers (Inverter)

13. BiCMOS NAND Gate

14. BiCMOS Drivers

16. Effect of Temperature