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Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016
DOI : 10.14810/elelij.2016.5204 37
APPLICATIONS OF FLOATING-GATE MOSFET IN
THE DESIGN OF INVERTER AND RING OSCILLATOR
Roshani Gupta, Rockey Gupta and Susheel Sharma
Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu, Jammu-180006, India
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the application of floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS) in the design of low voltage and
high speed digital circuits wherein threshold voltage tunability of FGMOS has been exploited to enhance
the performance of inverter in terms of various parameters like switching threshold voltage, noise margins,
propagation delay and energy delay product. It has been observed that by varying the bias voltage in
FGMOS, the voltage transfer characteristics can be altered that result in lowering of switching threshold
voltage, increased noise margins, reduced propagation delay and less energy delay product as compared to
the standard CMOS inverter. This paper also demonstrates the design of ring oscillator using FGMOS and
it has been found that FGMOS based ring oscillator exhibits higher frequency of oscillation as compared to
its CMOS counterpart. The performance of these circuits has been verified through PSpice simulations
carried out using level 7 parameters in 0.13 µm CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1 V.
KEYWORDS
Floating-gate MOSFET, inverter, voltage transfer characteristics, propagation delay, energy delay product,
ring oscillator
1. INTRODUCTION
The design of digital integrated circuits with very low power consumption and without much
degradation in speed has always been the focal point of researchers particularly in sub-micron
regime [1-3]. Since there is always a trade-off between power dissipation and time delay,
therefore, reducing the power dissipation and still maintaining the appreciable performance in
terms of operating speed is much desirable. With the immense demand of portable and battery
driven applications, there is a need for new and alternative circuit design techniques to implement
high performance and low power digital circuits. Further, with reducing feature size of devices,
the lowering of operating supply voltage is obvious but at the expense of speed. Hence, for
optimum performance of digital circuits, alternative design techniques should be explored [4-6].
CMOS inverter forms a basic building block of digital sub-circuits in mixed mode circuits with
limitation of high switching threshold voltage resulting in degraded performance. Floating-gate
MOSFET (FGMOS) has been widely used in the design of low voltage analog and digital circuits
due to its unique characteristic of threshold voltage tuning with a bias voltage, thus imparting
enhancement in performance. In this paper, we have employed floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS)
to design an inverter which has been further used to implement a ring oscillator. The paper has
been divided in various sections briefly introducing FGMOS, its application in the design of
inverter and ring oscillator. The performance of the designed circuits has been found to be
enhanced vis-à-vis their conventional CMOS versions. The workability of these circuits has been
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verified through PSpice simulations carried out using level 7 parameters in 0.13 µm CMOS
technology with a supply voltage of 1 V.
2. FLOATING-GATE MOS TRANSISTOR
The Floating-Gate MOS transistor (FGMOS) is basically a modified form of simple MOSFET
where extra capacitances have been introduced between the conventional gate and the multi-input
signal gates. By applying a bias voltage on one of the input gates, the threshold voltage of
FGMOS can be reduced. A number of secondary gates or input terminals are deposited above the
floating-gate (FG) which are electrically isolated from it but capacitively connected to it. Since
FG is completely surrounded by highly resistive material, so for dc operation, FG acts as floating
node. Programming of the FGMOS introduces a charge on its floating-gate that shifts the
threshold voltage and thus, provides a control over the device functionality [7-10]. The equivalent
schematic for an N-input and n-channel FGMOS is shown in Fig. 1 [11].
Figure 1. Floating-gate MOSFET
In a two-input n-channel FGMOS, input voltage (Vin) is applied through C1 and bias voltage
(Vbias) is applied through C2 which provides tunability to the conventional threshold voltage (VT)
of the FGMOS and VT adjusts to a new value VT,eff given as [12]:
1
2
,
k
kVV
V biasT
effT
−
= (1)
where
TC
C
k 1
1 = and
TC
C
k 2
2 = and C1 and C2 are the capacitances between floating-gate and
control gates and GBGDGST CCCCCC ++++= 21 . We observe that VT,eff will be less than VT if we
select Vbias > VT and k2 >k1, implying C2>C1. Thus, in FGMOS we can select VT,eff lower than
normal VT.
Now, by selecting W/L of FGMOS as 1.3µm/0.13µm and with supply voltage of 1V, the drain
and transfer characteristics are shown in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively.
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Figure 2. Drain characteristics of n-channel FGMOS
Figure 3. Transfer characteristics of n-channel FGMOS
It has been observed that as we increase Vbias from 0.3V to 0.6V, effective threshold voltage
(VT,eff) of n-channel FGMOS decreases from 0.8V to 0.2V at a reference drain current of 20 µA.
Similarly, the drain and transfer characteristics for p-channel FGMOS show bias dependent
behaviour. Thus, the performance of n-channel and p-channel FGMOS can be varied by
optimum selection of their respective Vbias and making FGMOS based digital circuits suitable
for low voltage and low power applications.
3. FGMOS INVERTER
The architecture of the FGMOS inverter has been obtained from the conventional CMOS inverter
as shown in Fig. 4 [13]. The bias voltages Vbp and Vbn provide tunability to the threshold voltages
of M1 and M2 respectively. It is, therefore, expected that by varying the bias voltages, the
threshold voltage of the FGMOS inverter can be changed.
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
IDS(µA)
VDS (Volts)
Vin = 0V Vin = 0.2V
Vin = 0.4V Vin = 0.6V
Vin = 0.8V Vin = 1V
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
175
200
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
IDS(µA)
Vin (Volts)
Vbias= 0.3V
Vbias= 0.4V
Vbias= 0.5V
Vbias= 0.6V
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Figure 4. FGMOS inverter
The performance of FGMOS inverter can be characterized through its voltage transfer
characteristics (VTC) which is a plot of Vout as a function of Vin. From these characteristics we can
calculate parameters like switching threshold voltage and noise margins to ascertain the dc
performance of these circuits. The switching threshold voltage (VS) is defined as the input voltage
that gives an identical output voltage and it can be obtained from the intersection of the VTC
curve and the plot of Vout = Vin [13, 14]. The voltage noise margins can be obtained as NMH = VOH
- VS and NML = VS - VOL, where VOH and VOL are logic-high and logic-low output voltages of
inverter respectively. Since noise margins NMH and NML account for the sensitivity of a gate to
noise, therefore large value of this parameter is desired that makes the gate less sensitive to noisy
environment [15].
The switching threshold voltage for FGMOS inverter is given by [14]:
p
n
1
2
p
n
1
2
1
β
β
β
β
+





 −
+
−
−
=
k
kVV
k
kVV
V
V
bnTnbpTp
DD
S
(2)
where 





=
L
W
Cn
n
oxµβn
and 





=
L
W
Cp
p
oxµβ p
are transconductance parameters of n and p-
channel FGMOS.
Now, the circuit of FGMOS inverter has been simulated to obtain the voltage transfer
characteristics (VTC) at different values of Vbp and Vbn by selecting W/L of M1 as 26 µm/0.13 µm
and M2 as 13 µm/0.13 µm with a supply voltage of 1 V as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 respectively.
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Figure 5. VTC of FGMOS inverter at different Vbp
Figure 6. VTC of FGMOS inverter at different Vbn
From Figs. 5 and 6, the calculated values of the switching threshold voltage (VS) and
noise margins NMH and NML at different values of Vbp and Vbn are given in table 1.
Table 1. Noise margins at different Vbp and Vbn
As observed in table 1, when bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS (Vbp) is varied from 0 V to 1 V at
constant bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS (Vbn = 1V), the switching threshold voltage (VS) and
low noise margin (NML) of FGMOS inverter decreases from 0.40 V to 0.21 V but high noise
Vbn = 1 V fixed Vbp = 0 V fixed
Vbp
(Volts)
VS
(Volts)
NMH
(Volts)
NML
(Volts)
Vbn
(Volts)
VS
(Volts)
NMH
(Volts)
NML
(Volts)
0 0.40 0.60 0.40 0 0.68 0.32 0.68
0.2 0.37 0.63 0.37 0.2 0.63 0.37 0.63
0.4 0.33 0.67 0.33 0.4 0.57 0.43 0.57
0.6 0.29 0.71 0.29 0.6 0.52 0.48 0.52
0.8 0.25 0.75 0.25 0.8 0.46 0.54 0.46
1 0.21 0.79 0.21 1 0.40 0.60 0.40
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Vout(Volts)
Vin (Volts)
Vbp = 0V
Vbp = 0.2V
Vbp = 0.4V
Vbp = 0.6V
Vbp = 0.8V
Vbp = 1V
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Vout(Volts)
Vin (Volts)
Vbn = 0V
Vbn = 0.2V
Vbn = 0.4V
Vbn = 0.6V
Vbn = 0.8V
Vbn = 1V
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margin (NMH) increases from 0.60 V to 0.79 V. Similarly, when bias voltage of n-channel
FGMOS (Vbn) is increased from 0 V to 1 V, while keeping Vbp fixed at 0 V, NML decreases from
0.68 V to 0.40 V. Now, in the circuit of FGMOS inverter, M2 (n-channel) determines NML and
M1 (p-channel) determines NMH and both noise margins are desired to be high for better noise
immunity. From table 1, we observe that NMH and NML are maximum when Vbp = 0 V & Vbn = 1
V which is the condition of low voltage operation for FGMOS because for Vbp = 0 V & Vbn = 1 V,
M1 and M2 exhibits minimum value of threshold voltage. Therefore, better noise margins can be
optimized by appropriate selection of Vbp and Vbn at 0V and 1V respectively.
The transient behaviour of the FGMOS inverter can be characterized by propagation delay (tp)
which is defined as the average of the time delay from low-to-high transition (tplh) and from high-
to-low transition (tphl) of the input and output waveforms in an inverter. It specifies the operating
speed and is given as [15, 16]:
2
)( tt
t
phlplh
p
+
= (3)
The propagation delay for FGMOS inverter can be given as [14]:























 −
−+










 −
−=
−− 1
1
2
p
1
1
2
n
)()(
35.0
k
kVV
V
k
kVV
VCt
bpTp
DD
bnTn
DDLp ββ (4)
Since tp depends on threshold voltage of n and p-channel MOSFETs, therefore it is expected that
it can be optimized using FGMOS where threshold voltage tunability is feasible [12].
The transient characteristics of FGMOS inverter at different values of Vbp and Vbn are shown in
Figs. 7 and 8 respectively.
Figure 7. Transient response of FGMOS inverter at different Vbp
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
0 1 2 3 4 5
Vout(Volts)
Time (ns)
Vin
Vbp = 0V
Vbp = 0.4V
Vbp = 0.8V
Vbp = 1V
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Figure 8. Transient response of FGMOS inverter at different Vbn
It is seen that the pulse response of FGMOS inverter can be varied with bias voltage resulting in
different values of propagation delay as shown in Fig. 9.
Figure 9. Propagation delay at different bias voltage
It has been observed in Fig. 9 that if the bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS is increased from 0V
to 1V while keeping bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS fixed at 1 V, the propagation delay
increases from 0.19 ns to 0.66 ns. Similarly, if bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS is increased
from 0 V to 1 V while keeping bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS fixed at 0 V, the propagation
delay decreases from 0.32 ns to 0.19 ns. Therefore, the appropriate selection of bias voltages of n
and p-channel FGMOS at 1V and 0V respectively decreases the propagation delay of FGMOS
inverter, thus enhancing the operating speed.
Now, the comparative transient characteristics of CMOS and FGMOS inverters have been
obtained by selecting Vbp = 0 V and Vbn = 1 V as shown in Fig. 10.
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
0 1 2 3 4 5
Vout(Volts)
Time (ns)
Vin
Vbn = 0V
Vbn = 0.4V
Vbn = 0.8V
Vbn = 1V
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Delay(ns)
Biasvoltage
Vbn
Vbp
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Figure 10. Comparative transient characteristics of CMOS and FGMOS inverters
From these results, it has been observed that FGMOS based inverter has less propagation delay
(0.2 ns) as compared to CMOS inverter which has the propagation delay of 0.4 ns, implying that
FGMOS based inverter exhibits better switching response and has high operating speed.
Since, the energy delay product represents the trade-off between power dissipation and the speed,
implying the operation of digital circuits at low power would result in loss of speed. Therefore,
lower value of energy delay product is required for circuits suitable for operation with low
operating voltage and low power consumption without much loss in operating speed. Now, the
values of propagation delay obtained from the transient analysis of CMOS and FGMOS based
inverters has been used to calculate the energy delay product (EDP) at different values of VDD as
shown in Fig. 11.
Figure 11. Comparative EDPs of CMOS and FGMOS inverters
The results obtained from Fig. 11 show that EDP is a function of supply voltage and for VDD=1V,
FGMOS inverter has EDP of 1×10-23
Js where as the value of EDP for CMOS inverter is 2×10-23
Js. Therefore, FGMOS inverter shows better performance as compared to CMOS due to lower
value of energy delay product, thus posing as an alternative design technique for low voltage and
high speed digital circuits.
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
0 1 2 3 4 5Vout(Volts)
Time (ns)
Inputvoltage
CMOS inverter
FGMOS inverter
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
EDP(Js)*10-23
VDD (Volts)
CMOS Inverter
FGMOS Inverter
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4. RING OSCILLATOR
Since FGMOS inverter exhibits better response than its CMOS counterpart in terms of speed,
noise immunity and power dissipation, therefore it has been further employed to implement a ring
oscillator which is often used in the information, communication and sensor technology for
frequency translation and channel selection [17-19].
A ring oscillator based on FGMOS is shown in Fig. 12 which consists of a cascade of three
inverters and the frequency of oscillation is given by [20]:
Figure 12. FGMOS based ring oscillator
)(6
1
tt
f
plhphl
o
+
= (5)
where tphl and tplh are the propagation delay for high-to-low and low-to-high transitions
respectively in an inverter which are given as under:
2
21
211
)(
)(
kVVVk
kVVVkkC
t
bnTnDDn
bnTnDDL
phl
+−
−+
=
β
(6)
2
21
211
)(
)}(3{
kVVVk
kVVVkkC
t
bpTpDDp
bpTpDDL
plh
−+
−+
=
β
(7)








−+
−+
+
+−
−+
=+ 2
21
21
2
21
21
1
)(
)(3
)( kVVVk
kVVVk
kVVVk
kVVVk
kCtt
bpTpDDp
bpTpDD
bnTnDDn
bnTnDD
Lplhphl
ββ
(8)
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From Eq. 8, we see that propagation delay decreases with increase in Vbn and decrease in Vbp.
Therefore, increasing bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS while keeping bias voltage of p-channel
FGMOS at zero volt will lead to small propagation delay and hence, enhanced frequency of
oscillation. Now, the circuit of FGMOS ring oscillator has been simulated at different values of
Vbn while keeping Vbp fixed at 0 V by selecting W/L of M1, M3 and M5 as 26µm/0.13µm and M2,
M4 and M6 as 13µm/0.13µm with the supply voltage of 1 V. The simulation results are shown in
Fig. 13.
Figure 13. Oscillations of FGMOS based ring oscillator at different Vbn
From the above results we have observed that the frequency of oscillation increases with increase
in bias voltage (Vbn) as shown in table 2.
Table 2. Variation of fo with Vbn
Vbn (V) fo (GHz)
0.2 4
0.4 4.5
0.6 5.2
0.8 5.9
1 6.7
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
-0.2
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
Time(ns)
Vbn=1V
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
-0.2
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
Vbn=0.8V
Vout(Volts)
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
-0.2
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
Vbn=0.4V
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The comparative performance of CMOS and FGMOS based three stage ring oscillator
has been obtained by selecting Vbp = 0 V and Vbn =1 V and is shown in Fig. 14. It has
been observed that frequency of oscillations in FGMOS ring oscillator is 6.7 GHz while
for CMOS ring oscillator it is 5 GHz.
Figure 14. Oscillations of CMOS and FGMOS based ring oscillators
The number of inverter stages in ring oscillator may be increased for multiphase outputs
but at the expense of reduced operating speed, high power dissipation and large chip area
[20]. The comparative frequency of oscillations in ring oscillator using CMOS and
FGMOS with different stages is given in table 3
Table 3. Comparative oscillation frequency of multistage ring oscillator
From the above results, we observe that with increase in the number of inverter stages in the
structure of ring oscillator, the frequency of oscillation decreases due to increased propagation
delay.
No. of
stages
CMOS FGMOS
fo (GHz) fo (GHz)
3 5 6.7
5 3.3 3.8
7 2.5 2.8
9 2 2.1
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
-0.2
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
Time(ns)
OutputVoltage(V)
CMOS
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
-0.2
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
FGMOS
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5. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, we have studied the effect of threshold voltage tunability in FGMOS for enhancing
the performance of inverter and ring oscillator. It has been found that by varying the bias voltage
of FGMOS, the voltage transfer characteristics of inverter can be suitably altered resulting in
decreased switching threshold voltage, increased noise margins, reduced propagation delay and
energy delay product as compared to its CMOS version. Further, it has been observed that the
oscillation frequency of ring oscillator depends on the propagation delay of inverter stages and
FGMOS based ring oscillator exhibits higher frequency of oscillation as compared to CMOS ring
oscillator.
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AUTHORS
Susheel Sharma received his MSc Physics (Electronics) from University of
Jammu, Jammu, India in 1991 and PhD degree from the same University in 2007
on the title ‘Analog applications of Floating-Gate MOS transistor in current
mirrors and current conveyors’. He has been working as faculty in the Department
of Physics & Electronics, University of Jammu since 1995. Presently he is an
Associate Professor in Electronics and his area of research interest includes Low
voltage analog and digital integrated circuits and he has 44 publications to his
credit in various National/International conferences and journals. He is a life member of Institution of
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India and Indian Science Congress.
Rockey Gupta received his M.Sc. degree in Electronics from University of
Jammu in 2000 with gold medal. He received his Ph. D degree in Electronics in
2014 from the same university. He has been working as a faculty member in the
department of Physics and Electronics since March 2002. He has been teaching
courses of electronic devices and circuits, digital electronics, IC technology,
microprocessors and microcontrollers and computer programming with c++ to
M.Sc electronics students. He is a life member of Institution of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India and Indian Science Congress. Presently he is working as a
senior Assistant Professor in Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu. His area of
research includes low voltage analog circuit design techiques using quasi-flaoting-gate MOSFETs. He has
20 publications to his credit in various National/International conferences and journals.
Roshani Gupta received her M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Electronics from University of
Jammu in the years 2011 and 2014, respectively. Presently she is pursuing Ph.D.
in Electronics from the same University. Her research interests include designing
CMOS digital circuits for low power applications.

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APPLICATIONS OF FLOATING-GATE MOSFET IN THE DESIGN OF INVERTER AND RING OSCILLATOR

  • 1. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 DOI : 10.14810/elelij.2016.5204 37 APPLICATIONS OF FLOATING-GATE MOSFET IN THE DESIGN OF INVERTER AND RING OSCILLATOR Roshani Gupta, Rockey Gupta and Susheel Sharma Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu, Jammu-180006, India ABSTRACT This paper presents the application of floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS) in the design of low voltage and high speed digital circuits wherein threshold voltage tunability of FGMOS has been exploited to enhance the performance of inverter in terms of various parameters like switching threshold voltage, noise margins, propagation delay and energy delay product. It has been observed that by varying the bias voltage in FGMOS, the voltage transfer characteristics can be altered that result in lowering of switching threshold voltage, increased noise margins, reduced propagation delay and less energy delay product as compared to the standard CMOS inverter. This paper also demonstrates the design of ring oscillator using FGMOS and it has been found that FGMOS based ring oscillator exhibits higher frequency of oscillation as compared to its CMOS counterpart. The performance of these circuits has been verified through PSpice simulations carried out using level 7 parameters in 0.13 µm CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1 V. KEYWORDS Floating-gate MOSFET, inverter, voltage transfer characteristics, propagation delay, energy delay product, ring oscillator 1. INTRODUCTION The design of digital integrated circuits with very low power consumption and without much degradation in speed has always been the focal point of researchers particularly in sub-micron regime [1-3]. Since there is always a trade-off between power dissipation and time delay, therefore, reducing the power dissipation and still maintaining the appreciable performance in terms of operating speed is much desirable. With the immense demand of portable and battery driven applications, there is a need for new and alternative circuit design techniques to implement high performance and low power digital circuits. Further, with reducing feature size of devices, the lowering of operating supply voltage is obvious but at the expense of speed. Hence, for optimum performance of digital circuits, alternative design techniques should be explored [4-6]. CMOS inverter forms a basic building block of digital sub-circuits in mixed mode circuits with limitation of high switching threshold voltage resulting in degraded performance. Floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS) has been widely used in the design of low voltage analog and digital circuits due to its unique characteristic of threshold voltage tuning with a bias voltage, thus imparting enhancement in performance. In this paper, we have employed floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS) to design an inverter which has been further used to implement a ring oscillator. The paper has been divided in various sections briefly introducing FGMOS, its application in the design of inverter and ring oscillator. The performance of the designed circuits has been found to be enhanced vis-à-vis their conventional CMOS versions. The workability of these circuits has been
  • 2. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 38 verified through PSpice simulations carried out using level 7 parameters in 0.13 µm CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1 V. 2. FLOATING-GATE MOS TRANSISTOR The Floating-Gate MOS transistor (FGMOS) is basically a modified form of simple MOSFET where extra capacitances have been introduced between the conventional gate and the multi-input signal gates. By applying a bias voltage on one of the input gates, the threshold voltage of FGMOS can be reduced. A number of secondary gates or input terminals are deposited above the floating-gate (FG) which are electrically isolated from it but capacitively connected to it. Since FG is completely surrounded by highly resistive material, so for dc operation, FG acts as floating node. Programming of the FGMOS introduces a charge on its floating-gate that shifts the threshold voltage and thus, provides a control over the device functionality [7-10]. The equivalent schematic for an N-input and n-channel FGMOS is shown in Fig. 1 [11]. Figure 1. Floating-gate MOSFET In a two-input n-channel FGMOS, input voltage (Vin) is applied through C1 and bias voltage (Vbias) is applied through C2 which provides tunability to the conventional threshold voltage (VT) of the FGMOS and VT adjusts to a new value VT,eff given as [12]: 1 2 , k kVV V biasT effT − = (1) where TC C k 1 1 = and TC C k 2 2 = and C1 and C2 are the capacitances between floating-gate and control gates and GBGDGST CCCCCC ++++= 21 . We observe that VT,eff will be less than VT if we select Vbias > VT and k2 >k1, implying C2>C1. Thus, in FGMOS we can select VT,eff lower than normal VT. Now, by selecting W/L of FGMOS as 1.3µm/0.13µm and with supply voltage of 1V, the drain and transfer characteristics are shown in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively.
  • 3. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 39 Figure 2. Drain characteristics of n-channel FGMOS Figure 3. Transfer characteristics of n-channel FGMOS It has been observed that as we increase Vbias from 0.3V to 0.6V, effective threshold voltage (VT,eff) of n-channel FGMOS decreases from 0.8V to 0.2V at a reference drain current of 20 µA. Similarly, the drain and transfer characteristics for p-channel FGMOS show bias dependent behaviour. Thus, the performance of n-channel and p-channel FGMOS can be varied by optimum selection of their respective Vbias and making FGMOS based digital circuits suitable for low voltage and low power applications. 3. FGMOS INVERTER The architecture of the FGMOS inverter has been obtained from the conventional CMOS inverter as shown in Fig. 4 [13]. The bias voltages Vbp and Vbn provide tunability to the threshold voltages of M1 and M2 respectively. It is, therefore, expected that by varying the bias voltages, the threshold voltage of the FGMOS inverter can be changed. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 IDS(µA) VDS (Volts) Vin = 0V Vin = 0.2V Vin = 0.4V Vin = 0.6V Vin = 0.8V Vin = 1V 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 IDS(µA) Vin (Volts) Vbias= 0.3V Vbias= 0.4V Vbias= 0.5V Vbias= 0.6V
  • 4. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 40 Figure 4. FGMOS inverter The performance of FGMOS inverter can be characterized through its voltage transfer characteristics (VTC) which is a plot of Vout as a function of Vin. From these characteristics we can calculate parameters like switching threshold voltage and noise margins to ascertain the dc performance of these circuits. The switching threshold voltage (VS) is defined as the input voltage that gives an identical output voltage and it can be obtained from the intersection of the VTC curve and the plot of Vout = Vin [13, 14]. The voltage noise margins can be obtained as NMH = VOH - VS and NML = VS - VOL, where VOH and VOL are logic-high and logic-low output voltages of inverter respectively. Since noise margins NMH and NML account for the sensitivity of a gate to noise, therefore large value of this parameter is desired that makes the gate less sensitive to noisy environment [15]. The switching threshold voltage for FGMOS inverter is given by [14]: p n 1 2 p n 1 2 1 β β β β +       − + − − = k kVV k kVV V V bnTnbpTp DD S (2) where       = L W Cn n oxµβn and       = L W Cp p oxµβ p are transconductance parameters of n and p- channel FGMOS. Now, the circuit of FGMOS inverter has been simulated to obtain the voltage transfer characteristics (VTC) at different values of Vbp and Vbn by selecting W/L of M1 as 26 µm/0.13 µm and M2 as 13 µm/0.13 µm with a supply voltage of 1 V as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 respectively.
  • 5. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 41 Figure 5. VTC of FGMOS inverter at different Vbp Figure 6. VTC of FGMOS inverter at different Vbn From Figs. 5 and 6, the calculated values of the switching threshold voltage (VS) and noise margins NMH and NML at different values of Vbp and Vbn are given in table 1. Table 1. Noise margins at different Vbp and Vbn As observed in table 1, when bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS (Vbp) is varied from 0 V to 1 V at constant bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS (Vbn = 1V), the switching threshold voltage (VS) and low noise margin (NML) of FGMOS inverter decreases from 0.40 V to 0.21 V but high noise Vbn = 1 V fixed Vbp = 0 V fixed Vbp (Volts) VS (Volts) NMH (Volts) NML (Volts) Vbn (Volts) VS (Volts) NMH (Volts) NML (Volts) 0 0.40 0.60 0.40 0 0.68 0.32 0.68 0.2 0.37 0.63 0.37 0.2 0.63 0.37 0.63 0.4 0.33 0.67 0.33 0.4 0.57 0.43 0.57 0.6 0.29 0.71 0.29 0.6 0.52 0.48 0.52 0.8 0.25 0.75 0.25 0.8 0.46 0.54 0.46 1 0.21 0.79 0.21 1 0.40 0.60 0.40 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Vout(Volts) Vin (Volts) Vbp = 0V Vbp = 0.2V Vbp = 0.4V Vbp = 0.6V Vbp = 0.8V Vbp = 1V 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Vout(Volts) Vin (Volts) Vbn = 0V Vbn = 0.2V Vbn = 0.4V Vbn = 0.6V Vbn = 0.8V Vbn = 1V
  • 6. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 42 margin (NMH) increases from 0.60 V to 0.79 V. Similarly, when bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS (Vbn) is increased from 0 V to 1 V, while keeping Vbp fixed at 0 V, NML decreases from 0.68 V to 0.40 V. Now, in the circuit of FGMOS inverter, M2 (n-channel) determines NML and M1 (p-channel) determines NMH and both noise margins are desired to be high for better noise immunity. From table 1, we observe that NMH and NML are maximum when Vbp = 0 V & Vbn = 1 V which is the condition of low voltage operation for FGMOS because for Vbp = 0 V & Vbn = 1 V, M1 and M2 exhibits minimum value of threshold voltage. Therefore, better noise margins can be optimized by appropriate selection of Vbp and Vbn at 0V and 1V respectively. The transient behaviour of the FGMOS inverter can be characterized by propagation delay (tp) which is defined as the average of the time delay from low-to-high transition (tplh) and from high- to-low transition (tphl) of the input and output waveforms in an inverter. It specifies the operating speed and is given as [15, 16]: 2 )( tt t phlplh p + = (3) The propagation delay for FGMOS inverter can be given as [14]:                         − −+            − −= −− 1 1 2 p 1 1 2 n )()( 35.0 k kVV V k kVV VCt bpTp DD bnTn DDLp ββ (4) Since tp depends on threshold voltage of n and p-channel MOSFETs, therefore it is expected that it can be optimized using FGMOS where threshold voltage tunability is feasible [12]. The transient characteristics of FGMOS inverter at different values of Vbp and Vbn are shown in Figs. 7 and 8 respectively. Figure 7. Transient response of FGMOS inverter at different Vbp 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 Vout(Volts) Time (ns) Vin Vbp = 0V Vbp = 0.4V Vbp = 0.8V Vbp = 1V
  • 7. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 43 Figure 8. Transient response of FGMOS inverter at different Vbn It is seen that the pulse response of FGMOS inverter can be varied with bias voltage resulting in different values of propagation delay as shown in Fig. 9. Figure 9. Propagation delay at different bias voltage It has been observed in Fig. 9 that if the bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS is increased from 0V to 1V while keeping bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS fixed at 1 V, the propagation delay increases from 0.19 ns to 0.66 ns. Similarly, if bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS is increased from 0 V to 1 V while keeping bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS fixed at 0 V, the propagation delay decreases from 0.32 ns to 0.19 ns. Therefore, the appropriate selection of bias voltages of n and p-channel FGMOS at 1V and 0V respectively decreases the propagation delay of FGMOS inverter, thus enhancing the operating speed. Now, the comparative transient characteristics of CMOS and FGMOS inverters have been obtained by selecting Vbp = 0 V and Vbn = 1 V as shown in Fig. 10. 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 Vout(Volts) Time (ns) Vin Vbn = 0V Vbn = 0.4V Vbn = 0.8V Vbn = 1V 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Delay(ns) Biasvoltage Vbn Vbp
  • 8. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 44 Figure 10. Comparative transient characteristics of CMOS and FGMOS inverters From these results, it has been observed that FGMOS based inverter has less propagation delay (0.2 ns) as compared to CMOS inverter which has the propagation delay of 0.4 ns, implying that FGMOS based inverter exhibits better switching response and has high operating speed. Since, the energy delay product represents the trade-off between power dissipation and the speed, implying the operation of digital circuits at low power would result in loss of speed. Therefore, lower value of energy delay product is required for circuits suitable for operation with low operating voltage and low power consumption without much loss in operating speed. Now, the values of propagation delay obtained from the transient analysis of CMOS and FGMOS based inverters has been used to calculate the energy delay product (EDP) at different values of VDD as shown in Fig. 11. Figure 11. Comparative EDPs of CMOS and FGMOS inverters The results obtained from Fig. 11 show that EDP is a function of supply voltage and for VDD=1V, FGMOS inverter has EDP of 1×10-23 Js where as the value of EDP for CMOS inverter is 2×10-23 Js. Therefore, FGMOS inverter shows better performance as compared to CMOS due to lower value of energy delay product, thus posing as an alternative design technique for low voltage and high speed digital circuits. 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 0 1 2 3 4 5Vout(Volts) Time (ns) Inputvoltage CMOS inverter FGMOS inverter 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 EDP(Js)*10-23 VDD (Volts) CMOS Inverter FGMOS Inverter
  • 9. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 45 4. RING OSCILLATOR Since FGMOS inverter exhibits better response than its CMOS counterpart in terms of speed, noise immunity and power dissipation, therefore it has been further employed to implement a ring oscillator which is often used in the information, communication and sensor technology for frequency translation and channel selection [17-19]. A ring oscillator based on FGMOS is shown in Fig. 12 which consists of a cascade of three inverters and the frequency of oscillation is given by [20]: Figure 12. FGMOS based ring oscillator )(6 1 tt f plhphl o + = (5) where tphl and tplh are the propagation delay for high-to-low and low-to-high transitions respectively in an inverter which are given as under: 2 21 211 )( )( kVVVk kVVVkkC t bnTnDDn bnTnDDL phl +− −+ = β (6) 2 21 211 )( )}(3{ kVVVk kVVVkkC t bpTpDDp bpTpDDL plh −+ −+ = β (7)         −+ −+ + +− −+ =+ 2 21 21 2 21 21 1 )( )(3 )( kVVVk kVVVk kVVVk kVVVk kCtt bpTpDDp bpTpDD bnTnDDn bnTnDD Lplhphl ββ (8)
  • 10. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 46 From Eq. 8, we see that propagation delay decreases with increase in Vbn and decrease in Vbp. Therefore, increasing bias voltage of n-channel FGMOS while keeping bias voltage of p-channel FGMOS at zero volt will lead to small propagation delay and hence, enhanced frequency of oscillation. Now, the circuit of FGMOS ring oscillator has been simulated at different values of Vbn while keeping Vbp fixed at 0 V by selecting W/L of M1, M3 and M5 as 26µm/0.13µm and M2, M4 and M6 as 13µm/0.13µm with the supply voltage of 1 V. The simulation results are shown in Fig. 13. Figure 13. Oscillations of FGMOS based ring oscillator at different Vbn From the above results we have observed that the frequency of oscillation increases with increase in bias voltage (Vbn) as shown in table 2. Table 2. Variation of fo with Vbn Vbn (V) fo (GHz) 0.2 4 0.4 4.5 0.6 5.2 0.8 5.9 1 6.7 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 Time(ns) Vbn=1V 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 Vbn=0.8V Vout(Volts) 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 Vbn=0.4V
  • 11. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 47 The comparative performance of CMOS and FGMOS based three stage ring oscillator has been obtained by selecting Vbp = 0 V and Vbn =1 V and is shown in Fig. 14. It has been observed that frequency of oscillations in FGMOS ring oscillator is 6.7 GHz while for CMOS ring oscillator it is 5 GHz. Figure 14. Oscillations of CMOS and FGMOS based ring oscillators The number of inverter stages in ring oscillator may be increased for multiphase outputs but at the expense of reduced operating speed, high power dissipation and large chip area [20]. The comparative frequency of oscillations in ring oscillator using CMOS and FGMOS with different stages is given in table 3 Table 3. Comparative oscillation frequency of multistage ring oscillator From the above results, we observe that with increase in the number of inverter stages in the structure of ring oscillator, the frequency of oscillation decreases due to increased propagation delay. No. of stages CMOS FGMOS fo (GHz) fo (GHz) 3 5 6.7 5 3.3 3.8 7 2.5 2.8 9 2 2.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 Time(ns) OutputVoltage(V) CMOS 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 FGMOS
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  • 13. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal (ELELIJ) Vol 5, No 2, May 2016 49 AUTHORS Susheel Sharma received his MSc Physics (Electronics) from University of Jammu, Jammu, India in 1991 and PhD degree from the same University in 2007 on the title ‘Analog applications of Floating-Gate MOS transistor in current mirrors and current conveyors’. He has been working as faculty in the Department of Physics & Electronics, University of Jammu since 1995. Presently he is an Associate Professor in Electronics and his area of research interest includes Low voltage analog and digital integrated circuits and he has 44 publications to his credit in various National/International conferences and journals. He is a life member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India and Indian Science Congress. Rockey Gupta received his M.Sc. degree in Electronics from University of Jammu in 2000 with gold medal. He received his Ph. D degree in Electronics in 2014 from the same university. He has been working as a faculty member in the department of Physics and Electronics since March 2002. He has been teaching courses of electronic devices and circuits, digital electronics, IC technology, microprocessors and microcontrollers and computer programming with c++ to M.Sc electronics students. He is a life member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India and Indian Science Congress. Presently he is working as a senior Assistant Professor in Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu. His area of research includes low voltage analog circuit design techiques using quasi-flaoting-gate MOSFETs. He has 20 publications to his credit in various National/International conferences and journals. Roshani Gupta received her M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Electronics from University of Jammu in the years 2011 and 2014, respectively. Presently she is pursuing Ph.D. in Electronics from the same University. Her research interests include designing CMOS digital circuits for low power applications.