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Conclusion

The sagacious engineer will take heed of the previously defined parameters and their

relationship to circuit performance and reliability. These parameters can be very helpful

when identifying problems early in the design stage. Other parameters, such as substrate

current, may be even more sensitive but are not always accessible to the design engineer.

The implications of the instability of these parameters are manifold and can ultimately be

expressed from the sub-atomic device physics regime to the circuit performance. This paper

has focused on aspects that the design engineer would consider tractable. By better

understanding the relationship of these basic MOSFET parameters to circuit performance,

designers can more accurately create effective amplifiers and other active circuits.

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