Hi All! I have just started looking into taping ou...
# sky130
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Hi All! I have just started looking into taping out some test structures on SKY130 with efabless. My 3 main questions right now are: 1.) Does this process offer zero temp co poly resistors? 2.) Does it offer +ve and -ve temp co poly resistors? 3.) Is weak inversion properly modelled for the MOSFETs? I cant find documentation on such items. Thanks for any feedback. Diarmuid
I don't see any zero temp poly resistors available. I don't know if both of those transistors are available at the same time. Someone from efabless could answer this.
The transistor models are BSIM4.0, so I count it as ok, as far models are ok https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk-libs-sky130_fd_pr/blob/f62031a1be9aefe902d6[…]6f59b57627436/cells/nfet_01v8/sky130_fd_pr__nfet_01v8.pm3.spice There are model problems for transistors outside the bin's strict sizes. The simulation works, but there are derivative discontinuities for W and L sweeps. No big deal. There are bigger problems than proper modeling of subthreshold region, such as parasitic currents to substrate, for example. If your circuit is good, you shouldn't be concerned too much about accuracy, anyway.
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Thanks Luis. So seems that SKY130 doesnt offer an N+ unsalicided poly resistor? This is offered as "npolyf_u" by GF.
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It seems to be the case. I just don't know why you plan to use those kind of resistors. I hope you don't want to make compensation circuits with them. Process variability is very large. I guess you can have metal resistors with close to 0 TC, if you really need them.