• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.302-308
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• 2011

In this paper, we have proposed a new approach for optical failure analysis which employs a CMOS photon-emitting circuitry, consisting of a flip-flop based on a sense amplifier and a photon-emitting device. This method can be used even with deep-submicron processes where conventional optical failure analyses are difficult to use due to the low sensitivity in the near infrared (NIR) region of the spectrum. The effectiveness of our approach has been proved by the failure analysis of a prototype designed and fabricated in 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.419-420
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• 2000

This paper describes the innovation of VLSI design methodology in the coming decade. Technology trend of VLSI fabrication is surveyed first. Then the so-called “design crisis” is analyzed. Finally, possible design methodology to overcome the design crisis is discussed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.27-34
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• 2004

The study on the RF substrate circuit is necessary to model RF output characteristics of deep submicron MOSFETs below 0.2$\mum$ gate length that have bun commercialized by the recent development of Si submicron process. In this paper, direct extraction methods are developed to apply for a simple substrate resistance model as well as another substrate model with connecting resistance and capacitance in parallel. Using these extraction methods, better agreement with measured Y22-parameter up to 30 GHz is achieved for 0.15$\mum$ CMOS device by using the parallel RC substrate model rather than the simple resistance one, demonstrating the RF accuracy of the parallel model and extraction technique. Using this model, bias and gate length dependent curves of substrate parameters in the RF region are obtained by increasing drain voltage of 0 to 1.2V at deep submicron devices with various gate lengths of 0.11 to 0.5㎛ These new extraction data will greatly contribute to developing a scalable RF nonlinear substrate model.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.206-209
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• 2006

This paper presents an analytical noise model for the drain thermal noise, the induced gate noise, and their correlation coefficient in deep-submicron MOSFETs, which is valid in both linear region and saturation region. The impedance field method was used to calculate the external drain thermal noise current. The effect of channel length modulation was included in the analytical equation. The noise behavior of MOSFETs with decreasing channel length was successfully predicted from our model.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.130-133
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• 2011

A comparative study of two capacitance methods to measure the effective channel length in deep-submicron MOSFETs has been made in detail. Since the reduction of the overlap capacitance in the accumulation region is smaller than the addition of the inner fringe capacitance at zero gate voltage, the capacitance method removing the parasitic capacitance in the accumulation region extracts a more accurate effective channel length than the method removing that at zero gate voltage.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.122-132
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• 1998

Characteristics of inductively coupled Cl2/O2 and Cl2/N2 plasmas and their effects on the formation of submicron deep trench etching of single crystal silicon have been investigated using Langmuir probe, quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Also, when silicon is etched with oxygen added chlorine plasmas, etch products recombined with oxygen such as SiClxOy emerged and Si-O bondings were found on the etched silicon surface. However, when nitrogen is added to chlorine, no etch products recombined with nitrogen nor Si-N bondings were found on the etched silicon surface. When deep silicon trenches were teached, the characteristics of Cl2/O2 and Cl2/N2 plasmas changed the thickness of the sidewall residue (passivation layer) and the etch profile. Vertical deep submicron trench profiles having the aspect ratio higher than 5 could be obtained by controlling the thickness of the residue formed on the trench sidewall using Cl2(O2/N2) plasmas.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.193-199
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• 2008

A combined clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit with adaptive cancellation of data-dependent jitter (DDJ) is constructed in all-digital architecture which is amenable to deep submicron technology. The DDJ canceller uses an adaptive FIR filter to compen-sate for any unknown channel characteristic. The proposed CDR decreases jitter in the recovered clock since the DDJ canceller significantly cancels out incoming jitter caused by inter-symbol interference.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.189-194
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• 2018

Nowadays most integrated circuits are built using the bulk CMOS technology, but it has much difficulty in further reduction of the power consumption and die size. As a super low-power technology to solve such problems, the SOI technology attracts great attention recently. In this paper, the study results of the temperature dependency of the hot carrier effects in the n-channel MOSFETs fabricated on the thin SOI substrate were discussed. In spite that the devices employed the LDD structure, the hot carrier effects were more serious than expected due to the high series resistance between the channel region and the substrate contact to the ground, and were found to be less serious for the higher temperature with the more phonon scattering in the channel region, which resulted in reducing the hot electron generation.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.134-138
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• 2008

We present a power gating turn-on mechanism that digitally suppresses ground-bounce noise in ultra-deep submicron technology. Initially, a portion of the sleep transistors are switched on in a pseudo-random manner and then they are all turned on fully when VVDD is above a certain reference voltage. Experimental results from a realistic test circuit designed in 65nm bulk CMOS technology show the potential of our approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.661-663
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• 2002

현대의 Deep-Submicron Technology(DSM)에선 배선에 관련된 문제, 예를 들어 crosstalk이나 노이즈 등이 큰 문제가 된다. 그리하여, 배선은 논리 구성요소들보다 더욱 중요한 위치를 차지하게 되었다. 우리는 이러한 배선을 고려하여 연산식을 최적화하기 위해 carry-save-adder(CSA)를 이용한 모듈 함성 알고리즘을 제시한다. 즉, 상위 단계에서 생성 된 규칙적인 배선 토폴로지를 유지하며 CSA간의 배선을 좀더 향상시키는 최적의 알고리즘을 제안한다. 우리는 우리의 이러한 방법으로 생성된 지연시간이 [1]에 가깝거나 거의 근접하는 것을 많은 testcase에서 보이며(배선을 포함하지 않은 상태에서), 그리고 그와 동시에 최종 배선의 길이가 짧고 규칙적인 구조를 갖는것을 보인다.