Manufacturing Engineering & Technology
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Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid
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The speed of a transistor is directly proportional to the width of its polysilicon gate; thus, a narrower gate results in a faster transistor and a wider gate in a slower transistor. Knowing that the manufacturing process has a certain difference for the gate width (say, ± 0.1 μm), how would a designer modify the gate size of a critical circuit in order to minimize its difference in speed? Are there any negative effects of this change?
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