Pulse Quenching and Charge-Sharing Effects on Heavy-Ion Microbeam Induced ASET in a Full-Custom CMOS OpAmp

In this work, charge sharing effects on Analog Single Event Transients are experimentally observed in a fully-custom designed, 180nm CMOS Operational Amplifier by means of a heavy-ion microbeam. Sensitive nodes of the differential stage showed bipolar output transients that cannot be explained by single node collection for the closed loop characteristics of the circuit under test. Layout of these transistors are consistent with charge sharing effects due to deposited charge diffusion. Implementation of linear modeling and simulations of multiple node collection between paired transistors of the input stage showed great coincidence with the obtained experimental waveforms, shaped as bipolar, quenched pulses. These effects are also observed due to dummy transistors placed in the layout. A simple parametrization at the simulation level is proposed to reproduce the observed experimental waveforms. Results indicate that charge-sharing effects should be taken into account during simulation-based sensitivity evaluation of analog circuits, as pulse quenching can alter the obtained results, and linear modeling is a simple approach to emulate simultaneous charge collection in multiple nodes by applying superposition principles, with aims of hardening a design.Fil: Fontana, Andrés. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; ArgentinaFil: Pazos, Sebastián Matías. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia de Área Investigaciones y Aplicaciones No Nucleares. Gerencia Física (CAC). Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Aguirre, Fernando Leonel. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia de Área Investigaciones y Aplicaciones No Nucleares. Gerencia Física (CAC). Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Vega, Nahuel Agustín. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Muller, Nahuel. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: De la Fourniere, Emmanuel. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: Silveira, Fernando. Universidad de la Republica. Facultad de Ingeniería; UruguayFil: Debray, Mario Ernesto. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: Palumbo, Félix Roberto Mario. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia de Área Investigaciones y Aplicaciones No Nucleares. Gerencia Física (CAC). Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

MOCAST 2021

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