Title :
A zone based self repairing SRAM architecture using adaptive body biasing schemes
Author :
Gunavathi, K. ; Sivamangai, N.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., PSG Coll. of Technol., Coimbatore
Abstract :
In nano scale devices, the major barrier that the CMOS devices face is increasing process parameter variations. The inter-die and intra-die variations in process parameters results in large number of failures in area constrained circuits such as SRAM cell, thus degrading the design yield. Adaptive repairing techniques such as adaptive body bias reduce the failure probabilities thus increasing the design yield. To apply this technique we have to distinguish between the dies from low-Vt process corners and those from high-Vt process corners. In this paper, we propose a new zone based repairing scheme for the dies, which fall in high-Vt corner by which the efficiency of the adaptive repairing technique can be improved.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; SRAM chips; integrated circuit reliability; nanotechnology; CMOS devices; adaptive body biasing schemes; nano scale devices; process parameter variations; zone based self repairing SRAM architecture; Circuits; Communication industry; Degradation; Educational institutions; Electronics industry; Industrial electronics; Information systems; Leakage current; Random access memory; Threshold voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial and Information Systems, 2007. ICIIS 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penadeniya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1151-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1152-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICIINFS.2007.4579150