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Sarig Junior Member Offline Posts: 31	NOIMOD in weak inversion Sep 29^th, 2006, 2:11pm Hello, What is more accurate for noise in weak inversion : NOIMOD=2 or NOIMOD=3
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Re: NOIMOD in weak inversion
Reply #1 - Oct 2^nd, 2006, 5:30am

NOIMOD=3 uses the "SPICE2" thermal noise model (8/3 kT (gm + gds + gmbs) and NOIMOD=2 uses the "BSIM3" thermal noise model (based on Qinv). Both use the same "unified" flicker noise model.

I would expect that the BSIM3 model is "better" than the Spice2 model, simply because it was developed later. I will also point out that NOIMOD=6 updates the SPICE2 noise model with an extra factor in BSIM3v3.3 which was released last summer. The extra factor is 1.0 in saturation, but can be up to 1.5 in the linear region.

I don't have any comments specific to weak inversion. Sorry.

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David Lee Junior Member Offline Posts: 29	Re: NOIMOD in weak inversion Reply #2 - Oct 14^th, 2006, 3:06pm The inversion charge-based thermal noise model (NOIMOD=2) should be more accurate. Have a look at the excellent book by Tsividis, "Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor". Chapter 8.5.3 is a section on thermal noise modeling, and discusses weak inversion operation in particular.
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