Older versions of CMOS devices may have hadinput gate capacitances of 10 pF, log

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1. 1. Older versions of CMOS devices may have hadinput gate capacitances of 10 pF, logic levels of 0-5V, andpropagation delays of 10 ns.  With smaller physicalsizes, the same function might have an input gate capacitance of 2pF and operate at logic levels approaching 0-1.5V.  For asimilar source and load impedance, estimate the increase in speedand reduction in power for the newer devices as a function of thespeed and power of older devices.

1. Older versions of CMOS devices may have hadinput gate capacitances of 10 pF, logic levels of 0-5V, andpropagation delays of 10 ns.  With smaller physicalsizes, the same function might have an input gate capacitance of 2pF and operate at logic levels approaching 0-1.5V.  For asimilar source and load impedance, estimate the increase in speedand reduction in power for the newer devices as a function of thespeed and power of older devices.

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(a) The Speed (propagation delay ) in the simplest form is given by              Iavg = C(V)/tp => tp = CV/Iavg        Thus to a roughapproximation tp(new)/tp(old) = (CV/Iavg)new / (CV/Iavg)old         For CMOS device assuminga full swing in Voltage i.e. VOH = VDD and VOL = 0V we have Vnew = 1.5 V , and V old = 5 V Iavg = Isat = K1(VGS-VT)2 = K1(VDD-VT)2 (For larger physicalsize) For the newer devices Isat = K2(VGS-VT)2 = K2(VDD-VT)2 (For very small size devices Isat = K3(VGS-VT) =K3(VDD-VT) . However we don't consider that small sizeddevice for our analysis) where K1 and K2 are factors involving processparameters , and (W/L) ratio Assuming K1 and K2 are nearly equal and VDD-VT = VDD ( i.e, VT

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