8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
A Test-Structure to Efficiently Study Threshold-Voltage Variation in Large MOSFET Arrays
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
A test-structure comprising a dual-slope integrating analog-to-digital converter, auto-zeroing circuitry, digital control logic and a large array of Devices Under Test (DUTs) has been developed to isolate threshold voltage variation.. Threshold-voltage (VT) isolation is achieved by testing all DUTs in the subthreshold regime where drain-to-source current is an exponential function of VT. Spice simulations show that the structure is at least an order of magnitude more sensitive to VT variation than to channel length variation. This, in combination with a hierarchical access scheme and leakage control system, allows efficient characterization of ..VT for ~70,000 NMOS and ~70,000 PMOS devices in a dense 2mm x 2mm DUT array.
Citation:
Nigel Drego, Anantha Chandrakasan, Duane Boning, "A Test-Structure to Efficiently Study Threshold-Voltage Variation in Large MOSFET Arrays," isqed, pp.281-286, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007