The reason why the PMOS of the 4x inverter has a different layout
(with the two fingers) than the 1x and 2x inverters is to be able to
fit the PMOS within the height of the cell.
Best,
Chintan
On Oct 27, 8:31 pm, Emmanuel Chao <chaoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking in the library of standard cell schematics provided to
> us, and I have a question about the differences between the 1x, 2x,
> and 4x inverters.
>
> I know that the 1x inverter has a 240n wide pmos, and the 4x inverter
> a 960n wide pmos. But in the layout of the 4x inverter, why does pmos
> have an extra metal connection to Vdd, (2 "fingers" in the object
> properties window), instead of having only one metal connection to Vdd
> as seen in the 1x inverter layout?