Fundamentals of MOSFETs
Silicon as a semiconductor
Si lattice structure
“p” type and “n” type Si
MOS transistor
NMOS and PMOS cross sections
MOS as a building block for building analog/RF circuits
Physics of turning ON of channel in an NMOS device.
Ids - Vds characteristics
Active and Saturation regions of operation
Drain current equations
OFF (leakage) in a MOS device
Large-signal and Small-signal models of a MOS device
Ids - Vds characteristics over Vds and Vgs
Small-signal model with “gm” and “rds”
Various MOS parasitic capacitances in the “small-signal” model
Brief review of a ”voltage-dependent” capacitor - varactor
Current mirrors
Simple amplifiers and small-signal analysis
Gain
Frequency response - poles and zeros
