Showing papers on "NQS published in 1992"
TL;DR: An non-quasi-static (NQS) model for transient current crowding in advanced bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) is presented and it is shown that, for the BJT switch-on transient, the NQSCurrent crowding causes an added delay and tends to become insignificant only when the emitter width is scaled to deep-submicron values.
Abstract: An non-quasi-static (NQS) model for transient current crowding in advanced bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) is presented. The model, which characterizes a time-dependent effective bias on the emitter-base junction in a seminumerical analysis, is intended for circuit simulation and has been implemented in MMSPICE. The novel modeling/implementation is based on the use of the previous time-step analysis, which is fact could allow general accounting for NQS effects in seminumerical mixed-mode device/circuit simulation. Demonstrative simulations, supported by purely numerical ones, show that, for the BJT switch-on transient, the NQS current crowding causes an added delay and tends to become insignificant only when the emitter width (W/sub E/) is scaled to deep-submicron values and that, for the switch-off transient, the added delay is negligible, at least for W/sub E/ >
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