The EKV MOSFET Model
Welcome to the Official EKV Site!
The site is dedicated to the EKV MOSFET model and its use for the design of low-power analog CMOS integrated circuits.
EKV is the name of a MOSFET model that was initially developed at EPFL by Enz, Krummenacher and Vittoz for the design of low-power analog CMOS integrated circuits taking advantage of biasing the transistor at low current density in moderate and weak inversion.
The name comes from the initials of the authors of the original publication An Analytical MOS Transistor Model Valid in All Regions of Operation and Dedicated to Low-Voltage and Low-Current Applications.
A short history of the EKV MOSFET model can be found in the article A Short Story of the EKV MOS Transistor Model which I wrote for the IEEE SSCS Newsletter dedicated to the work of Eric Vittoz.
My name is Christian Enz and I’m one of the main developer of the EKV MOSFET model. I decided to create this website to share all the material I have been developing along the years for the design of CMOS analog integrated circuits using the EKV model and the inversion coefficient.
This website includes:
a preview edition of my book CMOS Analog Integrated Circuit Design using the Inversion Coefficient showing some selected chapters.
Quarto notebooks which illustrate the use of the EKV model for the design of analog ICs. These Notebooks go into more details on some aspects that are presented in the book or stand as examples illustrating the use of the inversion coefficient for the design of analog ICs.