Question

The inverter is truly the nucleus of all digital designs. Once its operation and properties are clearly understood, designing more intricate structures such as NAND gates, adders, multipliers, and microprocessors is greatly simplified. The electrical behavior of these complex circuits can be almost completely derived by extrapolating the results obtained for inverters.

Discuss the trade-offs in design an NMOS inverter in terms of any 3 of the following: load resistance, power dissipation, input and output voltages, and noise margin.

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