How do you use shielding to reduce noise and interference in sensitive analog sections of a circuit? In sensitive analog…
What is the importance of a good floor plan in analog layout design? A good floor plan is important to…
What is HVT, LVT, and ULVT cells? Different performance levels of transistor cells used in the creation of integrated circuits…
What are DRC & how will you fix them? DRC stands for “design rule check.” In the context of integrated…
What is CMP (chemical mechanical polishing)? Chemical mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP) is a process that removes materials by a combination of…
What is the Contact Spike phenomenon in VLSI? Contact spike is a phenomenon that can occur in very large-scale integration…
Best Practice for Analog Layout Design Here are some best practices for analog layout design: Start with a good floorplan:…
NWELL Antenna Effect The NWELL antenna effect is a phenomenon that can occur in CMOS (Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) circuits when the NWELL…
Fin Field-Effect Transistor FinFET (Fin Field-Effect Transistor) is a type of MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) that uses a thin, vertical…
Why do we use p substrate in CMOS? Starting with a p-type substrate allows one to build n-channel transistors without…