MOSFET: A silent heartbreaker

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This innocent looking creature can make you very frustrated and might hamper your sleep cycles. Survivors have claimed symptoms of PTSD after their semester exams.

                                        



MOSFET is the backbone of VLSI industry and having a thorough understanding of the subject becomes critical. Knowing them inside-out (quite literally), gives you the rights to flex and enchant the interviewer. The following topics are of utmost importance while learning about MOSFETs:
*MOS – operation, Vth, biasing
*Scaling and small geometry effect
*Short channel effects
*MOSFET capacitance
*CMOS inverter and Noise
*Power, Energy and Delay

Please refer to the link below for handwritten notes covering all the important topics one might need to hold the concepts with a Herculean grip:



Recommended Book:  CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, Analysis and Design: Kang
Practical Way to understand MOSFETS: A very cool blog

Please refer to the following blog for one-stop fix-all for your VLSI placements. I have discussed the strategy and attached all the resources:
https://coreprephelp.blogspot.com/2022/12/harry-potter-and-mystery-of-core-jobs.html


P.S: I write pretty cool blogs to help VLSI community, do check out other blogs :) 
You can connect with me on LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/priyansh-chaturvedi-6b893540



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