Do anyone here has experience with nMOS well isola...
# ieee-sscs-dc-22
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Do anyone here has experience with nMOS well isolation? I was talking to a colleague of mine the other day and they asked about whether or not I intended to use deep Nwell isolation in my circuits, and I didn't know what to answer.
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I unsed nMOS well isolation for a difference amplifier, so the bulk and source could follow the gate and the operating point would not shift with the common mode voltage.
e.g. if you design an opamp it's useful for the input stage if you want to use nmos input transistors. One might argue of course for using PMOS here.
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I have used it to create isolation between circuits. It allows you to separate ground connections (say between a low-jitter clock gen circuit and a bank of comparators with signal dependent switching) without having a conductive short through the substrate. The effectiveness at high frequencies is limited by your ability to create low-impedance ground connections off chip for the two circuits. At very high frequencies, you'll have capacitve coupling between the two grounds through the DNW/SUB diode capacitances. Feel free to message me if you want to discuss further.
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h
Yes, I have been using triple-well many times to isolate the NMOS from the substrate.
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Hello, I have a question regarding this: Is it possible to use isolated devices for the 10.5v flavor? How can i check this?
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Principally any NMOS can be put into the pwell that sits in the nwell in the p-substrate. The question is whether the PDK supports this for all devices. Take a look at the devices in question in the layout and compare layers, and check if there either is a model available or you can hack one (by adding the extra diodes by hand).