• 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