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CHAPTER 8: Noise Modeling
8.1 Flicker Noise
8.1.1 Parameters
There exist two models for flicker noise modeling. One is called SPICE2
flicker noise model; the other is BSIM3 flicker noise model [35-36]. The
flicker noise model parameters are listed in Table 8-1.
Table 8-1. Flicker noise model parameters.
Symbols
used in
equation
Symbols
used in
SPICE
Description Default Unit
Noia noia Noise parameter A (NMOS) 1e20
(PMOS) 9.9e18
none
Noib noib Noise parameter B (NMOS) 5e4
(PMOS) 2.4e3
none
Noic noic Noise parameter C (NMOS) -1.4e-12
(PMOS) 1.4e-12
none
Em em Saturation field 4.1e7 V/m
Af af Flick noise exponent 1 none
Ef ef Flicker noise frequency
exponent
1 none
Kf kf Flicker noise coefficient 0 none
Flicker Noise
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8.1.2 Formulations
1. For SPICE2 model
(8.1)
where f is the frequency.
2. For BSIM3 model
If V
gs
> V
th
+ 0.1
(8.2)
where V
tm
is the thermal voltage,
eff
is the effective mobiity at the given
bias condition, and L
eff
and W
eff
are the effective channel length and width,
respectively. The parameter N
0
is the charge density at the source side
given by
(8.3)
The parameter N
l
is the charge density at the drain end given by
ef
eff ox
af
ds f
f L C
I K
density Noise
2

( ) ( )
( )
2
14
2
8 2
2 2
0 0 14
14
0
8 2
2
10 2
10
2 10 2
10 2
log
10
+
+ +

,
_

+ +

,
_

+
+

l
l l
ef
eff eff
clm ds tm
l l
l
ef
eff ox
ds eff
N
N Noic N Noib Noia
f L W
L I V
N N
Noic
N N Noib
N
N
Noia
f L C
I kT q
density Noise

( )
q
V V C
N
th gs ox

0
Flicker Noise
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(8.4)
L
clm
is the channel length reduction due to channel length modulation and
given by
(8.5)
where
Otherwise
(8.6)
Where, S
limit
is the flicker noise calculated at V
gs
= V
th
+ 0.1 and S
wi
is given
by
( ) ( )
q
V V V V C
N
dsat ds th gs ox
l
, min

( )
( )
eff
sat
sat
dsat ds
sat
m
dsat ds
v
E
V V
E
E
Litl
V V
Litl
L

'

>

,
_

2
otherwise 0
for log
clm
ox j
T X Litl 3
wi limit
wi limit
S S
S S
density Noise
+

Channel Thermal Noise

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(8.7)
8.2 Channel Thermal Noise
There also exist two models for channel thermal noise modeling. One is called
SPICE2 thermal noise model. The other is BSIM3v3 thermal noise model. Each of
these can be toggled through the model flag, noiMod.
1. For SPICE2 thermal noise model
(8.8)
where G
m
, G
mbs
and G
ds
are the transconductances.
2. For BSIM3v3 thermal noise model [37]
(8.9)
Q
inv
is the inversion channel charge computed from the capacitance models
(capMod = 0, 1, 2 or 3).
36
2
wi
10 4

ef
eff eff
ds tm
f L W
I V Noia
S
( )
ds mbs m
B
G G G
T k
+ +
3
8
inv
eff
eff B
Q
L
T k
2
4
Noise Model Flag
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8.3 Noise Model Flag
A model flag, noiMod, is used to select different combination of flicker and
thermal noise models discussed above with possible optoins described in Table 8-
2.
Table 8-2. noiMod flag for differnet noise models.
noimod
flag Flicker noise model
Thermal noise
model
1 SPICE2 SPICE2
2 BSIM3v3 BSIM3v3
3 BSIM3v3 SPICE2
4 SPICE2 BSIM3v3
Noise Model Flag
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