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Advantages of fingering:
LOD effect:
This effect is due to the stress caused by the Shallow trench isolation which
affects the device Vt, Idsat, matching of the device and large error In the
current mirror.
As the distance from the edge of the poly gate to the boundary of diffusion
area (SA, SB, SD)varies, so do the properties of the transistor. Let's say you
have ten transistors on one stretch of diffusion. The transistors at the centre
of the diffusion strip and the transistors at the sides have different properties
e.g. vth may vary by 20mV. This in turn translates to offset and some other
circuit imperfections.
To avoid LOD effect, it is better to have multipliers instead of fingers, as the
stress due to STI will be same for all the devices.
This lateral non uniformity causes the MOSFET Vt and oher electrical
charateristics to vary with the distance of the transistor ito the well edge.
This phenomenon is called well proximity effect.