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To: wily who wrote (125114)	1/16/2001 10:54:18 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

How much current can be delivered by a minimum-size transistor on a 0.18 process? Is it dependent on voltage? If so, assume a 2.5V supply. It is certainly voltage dependant. 2.5V is far too high for multiple reasons(gate oxide reliability/overall power dissipation) for any competitive .18um x86 CPU process. 1.8V would be more appropriate. A MINIMUM channel length device (NFET) on such a process would have a drive current of approx. 1 mA/um of channel width. The narrowest NFET device would be in the SRAM cell with a width of perhaps .5um. The narrowest PFET (maybe .3um wide and also in the SRAM cell) would have a current (mA/um of channel width) of perhaps half that of the NFET. THE WATSONYOUTH