A sub-600-mV, fluctuation tolerant 65-nm CMOS SRAM array with dynamic cell biasing

AJ Bhavnagarwala, S Kosonocky… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
AJ Bhavnagarwala, S Kosonocky, C Radens, Y Chan, K Stawiasz, U Srinivasan…
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2008ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fluctuation limitations on scaling CMOS SRAM cell transistor dimensions and operating
voltages are demonstrated by measuring local stochastic distributions of 65-nm PDSOI
CMOS SRAM cell storage node voltages during Read, Write, and Retention modes of
operation. These measurements reveal insights into terminal voltage dependencies of cell
margin distributions—observations that are engaged to increase cell immunity to random
\rmV_T fluctuations by several orders of magnitude by biasing the cell terminal voltages …
Fluctuation limitations on scaling CMOS SRAM cell transistor dimensions and operating voltages are demonstrated by measuring local stochastic distributions of 65-nm PDSOI CMOS SRAM cell storage node voltages during Read, Write, and Retention modes of operation. These measurements reveal insights into terminal voltage dependencies of cell margin distributions—observations that are engaged to increase cell immunity to random fluctuations by several orders of magnitude by biasing the cell terminal voltages dynamically with a Read-Write asymmetry. Combinations of circuit techniques implementing these dynamic cell biasing schemes are demonstrated in a 9kb74b PDSOI CMOS SRAM array with a conventional 65 nm SRAM cell and an ABIST. Measurements demonstrate these techniques to enable reductions of over 200 mV—lowering measured to 0.54 V and 0.38 V/0.50 V for single and dual implementations, respectively. The techniques consume a 10%–12% overhead in area, impact performance marginally (5%) and also enable over 50% reduction in cell leakage.
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