• DocumentCode
    2374935
  • Title

    PVT-variations and supply-noise tolerant 45nm dense cache arrays with Diffusion-Notch-Free (DNF) 6T SRAM cells and dynamic multi-Vcc circuits

  • Author

    Khellah, Muhammad ; Kim, Nam Sung ; Ye, Yibin ; Somasekhar, Dinesh ; Karnik, Tanay ; Borkar, Nitin ; Hamzaoglu, Fatih ; Coan, Tom ; Wang, Yih ; Zhang, Kevin ; Webb, Clair ; Vivek De

  • Author_Institution
    Circuits Res. Lab., Hillsboro, OR
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    18-20 June 2008
  • Firstpage
    48
  • Lastpage
    49
  • Abstract
    PVT-tolerant and supply noise tracking word-line under-drive circuit, PMOS pass device, and dynamic voltage collapse enable read and write stable diffusion-notch-free (DNF) 6T SRAM cells. Measurements from a 45-nm test-chip show 26X reduction in number of single bit failures using those schemes.
  • Keywords
    MOS integrated circuits; MOS memory circuits; SRAM chips; cache storage; integrated circuit noise; PMOS pass device; dense cache arrays; diffusion-notch-free SRAM cells; dynamic multi-Vcc circuits; dynamic voltage collapse; supply noise; word-line under-drive circuit; Circuit noise; Circuit stability; Degradation; Frequency conversion; MOS devices; Rails; Random access memory; Regulators; Variable structure systems; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits, 2008 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1804-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1805-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSIC.2008.4585947
  • Filename
    4585947