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How to sizing the transistor in the analog circuit
Nov 03rd, 2013, 6:56am
 
Hi Guys:
I am a freshman in IC design. I confronted the sizing problem in biasing, start-up, CMFB, amflifier circuit.
Is there any rule of thumb, to sizing the W/L in every section.
For example, I know for current mirror we commonly use larger vdsat (smaller gm/id), for cascode small vdsat (larger gm/id). However, in light of gm, vdsat we expected, We calculate the W/L. The transisor is commonly not all in saturation. How could we deal with this situation. Is there any rules for tuning the W/L, and getting the gm and vdsat I needed.

Thanks guys :D

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Re: How to sizing the transistor in the analog circuit
Reply #1 - Nov 3rd, 2013, 10:18am
 
Hi..
well i didnt understand what you want to do first...aspect ratio is inversely related to overdrive voltage of transistor..u can get their relationship from current equation also....it depends on what u want your transistor to do and to work in particular region....if u want more current u can increase aspect ration but that will affect ur vds sat. so u can either first fix ur current then get vds sat and u can find aspect ration..
there r many ways to do that..also if u know gm and id u can get minimum aspect ratio.
hope that helps
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Re: How to sizing the transistor in the analog circuit
Reply #2 - Nov 3rd, 2013, 8:58pm
 
Guy, Thank you.
I am sorry for my twisted description. To design an amplifier, I got the input transistor gm from the specs. I just wanna know whether  there are some rule of the thumb on how to decide the every transistor's vdsat, furthermore the size of the transistors, especially the length.~~ btw, How to tune the W/L ratio? is there any good advices?

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Reply #3 - Nov 4th, 2013, 12:18am
 
hi watt

a very general rule of thumb is to size all transistors to have a gm/i of ~10.

then for more speed, you size it greater than 10, and use minimum L

for mirrors, use large-ish L, in the order of 1u (on a 0.13um/0.18um process) to get good matching.

for low flicker noise, use large WxL area.

One thing to start thinking is about layout. It looks neater when transistors have uniform dimensions (e.g. use L=1u, 2u, etc ... rather than 1.12u, 2.38u etc ...)

the most crucial part of the design (and most often forgotten) is not the sizing of the devices, but rather the BIASING.

One good book to follow is ...
CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation
R. Jacob Baker

i think he also has some lectures which you can follow online ...

good luck !
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Re: How to sizing the transistor in the analog circuit
Reply #4 - Nov 4th, 2013, 12:47am
 
Hi watt,

You are asking a very naive question. W/L is all that designers want to hide, otherwise amplifier configurations can be found every where. It depends which IC technology you are using. If you are working with old technologies like 0.5um or so a text book approach could be handy. (See Razavi's Design of analog CMOS Integrated Circuits...may be page 300). If you are working in submicron technologies gm/Id approach is suitable. Consult the notes of Professor Bernard Boser. Google his notes and use the amplifier design methodology he discussed. There is no general rule of thum, intuition and experience come in handy!
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Re: How to sizing the transistor in the analog circuit
Reply #5 - Nov 4th, 2013, 4:18pm
 
Thank you harpoon and jockeymoon, your advices are terrific great. Thanks a lot.

gm/id is also a good way to design, I am a new learner. Maybe I need to train my intuition.
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Reply #6 - Nov 4th, 2013, 11:49pm
 
no prob watt ... i was once in your shoes ...

just remember 3 rules ...

BIASING BIASING BIASING !
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Reply #7 - Nov 26th, 2013, 5:39am
 
What i would advice is to initially get a feel of how the transistor vgs as well as vds behave in simple circuits. Firstly get hold of bias blocks and try putting the transistors in sat  by modifying the gate bias, have a feel for how you sum up all the voltages from supply and reach ground.Razavi as well as baker are very good texts with baker being more design  oriented.
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