Large deviations theory for noisy non-linear electronics: CMOS inverter as a case study
arXiv:2205.12659 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155303
Abstract
The latest generation of transistors are nanoscale devices whose performance and reliability are limited by thermal noise in low-power applications. Therefore developing efficient methods to compute the voltage and current fluctuations in such non-linear electronic circuits is essential. Traditional approaches commonly rely on adding Gaussian white noise to the macroscopic dynamical circuit laws, but do not capture rare fluctuations and lead to thermodynamic inconsistencies. A correct and thermodynamically consistent approach can be achieved by describing single-electron transfers as Poisson jump processes accounting for charging effects. But such descriptions can be computationally demanding. To address this issue, we consider the macroscopic limit which corresponds to scaling up the physical dimensions of the transistor and resulting in an increase of the number of electrons on the conductors. In this limit, the thermal fluctuations satisfy a Large Deviations Principle which we show is also remarkably precise in settings involving only a few tens of electrons, by comparing our results with Gillespie simulations and spectral methods. Traditional approaches are recovered by resorting to an ad hoc diffusive approximation introducing inconsistencies. To illustrate these findings, we consider a low-power CMOS inverter, or NOT gate, which is a basic primitive in electronic design. Voltage (resp. current) fluctuations are obtained analytically (semi-analytically) and reveal interesting features.
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