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thermal noise of MOS in non-saturate area
Jun 29th, 2007, 7:48am
 
In "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits" by Behzad Razavi, the thermal noise of MOS is I2=4kTγgm
while in "The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits" by Thomas H. Lee, the thermal noise of MOS is I2=4kTγgd0.
If the MOS work in saturate area, we can find that gm=gd0.  So these two functions is the same.  But if the MOS work in non-saturate area, the result is different.  What is the thermal noise of MOS in non-saturate area?
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Re: thermal noise of MOS in non-saturate area
Reply #1 - Jul 1st, 2007, 7:59am
 
Hi,
If you look at footnote 7 in Razavi's book he states that in fact is not a gm it's  gds at VDS=0, so in fact gds=gd0. In non-saturate area noise is equal to I2=4kTγgd0, with γ=1, while in saturation γ=2/3(long-channel devices) and γ=2..3(short-channel devices).
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Reply #2 - Jul 10th, 2007, 6:08am
 
Thanks to didac.  I didn't see the footnote by carelessness.

There is another question.  As you said, in non-saturate area noise is equal to I2=4kTγgd0.  So the noise should be independent to Vds, which is not agree with the simulation result. (I use spectre to do noise simulation.  The process is TSMC 0.18um CMOS)
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