Title :
Implementation of FinFET based STT-MRAM bitcell
Author :
Bhattacharya, Avik ; Pal, Shovon ; Islam, Aminul
Author_Institution :
Birla Inst. of Technol., Electron. & Commun. Eng., Ranchi, India
Abstract :
DGMOSFET or FinFET has emerged as a promising candidate to replace conventional MOSFET which suffers from various disadvantages like subthreshold leakage, gate-dielectric leakage, SCE (short-channel effect) or DIBL (drain-induced barrier lowering). Emerging technology like FinFET reduces these and improves variability. This paper presents a FinFET based STT-MRAM bitcell which is gaining researcher´s attention gradually by its nonvolatile nature and low power consumption. It proposes a 2-FinFETs, 1-MTJ based STT-MRAM bitcell to improve its performance metrics. Simulation results in HSPICE show that our proposed bitcell has less probability of read failure, write failure.
Keywords :
MOSFET; MRAM devices; magnetic tunnelling; 1-MTJ based STT-MRAM bitcell; DGMOSFET; DIBL; FinFET based STT-MRAM bitcell; HSPICE; SCE; drain-induced barrier lowering; gate-dielectric leakage; read failure; short-channel effect; subthreshold leakage; write failure; FinFETs; MOSFET circuits; Magnetic tunneling; Nanoscale devices; Switches; System-on-chip; FinFET; MRAM; MTJ; read margin; write margin;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ramanathapuram
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3913-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICACCCT.2014.7019480