Short Channel Hi-CMOS Device and Circuits

Short channel NMOS devices have been accepted for logic and memory circuits. However, the power dissipation tends to limit the performance. Use of CMOS circuit reduces power significantly with sacrifice of switching speed. To eliminate these disadvantages, a new short channel high speed CMOS (Hi-CMOS) device and circuit technology has been developed. It has, so far, been applied to 43-ns, 80-mW 4K static RAM and proved successful.