The Designer's Guide Community
Forum
Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register. Please follow the Forum guidelines.
Sep 17th, 2024, 2:23pm
Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Basic Inverter Design (Read 2632 times)
hande.vinayak
Junior Member
**
Offline



Posts: 22
BOM
Basic Inverter Design
Feb 14th, 2007, 4:55am
 
Hello,
 As I am beginner I have started with designing an Inverter.
I am having spec as IOH= 3mA.VOH =2.25 as Vdd is 2.5.
The VOHmin is the vtg where VILmax is applied.At that point I am getting
correct 3mA.
  Is this correct way to calculate IOH?
  Second thing,as I am not getting any load currect.
I am getting load current only when i/p's rise time and fall time.
Then how to decide above mentioned parameters?
 As we have studied theoretically,nmos or pmas should ON / OFF periodically,
and current should get sink and source from load.
 But in my case I could not find that load is sinking or sourcing any current except rise and fall time.
Plz,help me sort out the problem.
Thnx very much.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Vabzter
Junior Member
**
Offline



Posts: 26
Sweden
Re: Basic Inverter Design
Reply #1 - Feb 16th, 2007, 6:51am
 
Hi,
     Are u not able to plot the current waveform? i am not sure if I got your question..
BR
Vabzter
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
SRF Tech
Community Member
***
Offline



Posts: 59
Arizona
Re: Basic Inverter Design
Reply #2 - Feb 16th, 2007, 7:27am
 
Hande,
 I am not quite sure I understand your question either, but I think what you are saying is that you have a IOH spec of 3mA, but you are not seeing any output current except during your transient.  If this is the question, the answer is first that IOH and IOL specs are written for when the inverter is driving a resistive load, not capacitive.  Basically, when your inverter attempts to drive a 2.5V high value across that resistive load, the actual output value is decided by the voltage division across the output impedance of your inverter and the load resistance.  With your spec, it is your job to make sure that you can source atleast 3mA and still maintain a Voh=2.25V (essentially your ouput impedance must be less than 0.25Vdrop/3mA = 333 ohms).

You can test this in two ways: 1.  Apply a fixed DC voltage of 2.25V at the output of your inverter and see how much current your inverter will source into the DC load when you try to drive it to 2.5V.  2.  Or you can apply an ideal current sink of 3mA to the output of your inverter, thenm drive a high value and measure the voltage at the output of your inverter, it should be >2.25V.

I tend to use an ideal voltage source and measure the current (my preference)

Hope this helps,
-Stephen
Back to top
 
 

Excellence in ESD and IO Design
www.srftechnologies.com
View Profile WWW   IP Logged
Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Copyright 2002-2024 Designer’s Guide Consulting, Inc. Designer’s Guide® is a registered trademark of Designer’s Guide Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved. Send comments or questions to editor@designers-guide.org. Consider submitting a paper or model.