3.9 ps SiGe HBT ECL ring oscillator and transistor design for minimum gate delay

Basanth Jagannathan, Mounir Meghelli, Kevin Chan, Jae Sung Rieh, Kathryn Schonenberg, David Ahlgren, Seshadri Subbanna, Greg Freeman

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Abstract

We show empirical results that demonstrate the effect of high performance SiGe HBT design parameters on the minimum gate delay of an ECL ring oscillator. SiGe HBT devices with a high fMAX (338 GHz) and a low fT (180 GHz) achieve a minimum delay of 3.9 ps, which to our knowledge is the lowest reported delay for a silicon based logic gate. Compared to the extracted (extrapolated) fT and fMAX, a simple figure of merit proportional to √fT/RBCCB with RB and CCB extracted from S-parameter measurement is best correlated to the minimum gate delay.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)324-326
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Electron Device Letters
Volume24
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003 May
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Germanium
  • HBTs
  • High-speed devices
  • Ring oscillators
  • SiGe
  • Silicon

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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