DocumentCode
1921042
Title
A proposed tail transistor based SRAM cell
Author
Prabhu, C.M.R. ; Singh, Ajay Kumar
Author_Institution
Fac. of Eng. & Technol., Multimedia Univ., Ayer Keroh, Malaysia
fYear
2010
fDate
3-5 Oct. 2010
Firstpage
522
Lastpage
525
Abstract
In this paper, we have proposed a write efficient SRAM cell. The write power consumption is reduced compare to the 6T cell due to two extra nMOS tail transistors in the pulldown path of the respective inverter. These two tail transistors avoid the discharging of bitlines. The proposed cell is simulated with the help of the MICROWIND3 using advanced BSIM4 model. The SRAM cell is 1.85X faster and consumes 58% less power than the conventional SRAM cell during write mode. Due to two extra transistors, read power consumption and delay are degraded.
Keywords
MOSFET; SRAM chips; invertors; advanced BSIM4 model; delay; nMOS tail transistors; read power consumption; respective inverter; tail transistor based SRAM cell; write power consumption; Computer architecture; Delay; Microprocessors; Power demand; Random access memory; Transistors; Very large scale integration; Read delay; SRAM cell; Tail transistor; Write operation/Read operation; Write power;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA), 2010 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Penang
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-7645-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIEA.2010.5679410
Filename
5679410
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