• DocumentCode
    2385517
  • Title

    A universal structure for SRAM cell characterization

  • Author

    Deng, Xiaowei ; Houston, Theodore W. ; Duong, Anhkim ; Loh, Wah Kit

  • Author_Institution
    Texas Instrum. Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    22-25 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    216
  • Lastpage
    219
  • Abstract
    A universal test structure (UTS) for SRAM cell characterization is proposed and implemented in 65nm - 28nm technologies. The structure allows, for the first time, measurement of nearly all transistor and cell characteristics of an SRAM cell on silicon. It hence enables direct correlation among various measured transistor and cell characteristics, collection of intra-bit transistor mismatch data, and assessment of wafer level Vmin sensitivity on transistor characteristics. Measured data are presented.
  • Keywords
    SRAM chips; sensitivity analysis; silicon; transistors; SRAM cell characterization; cell characteristics; silicon; transistor characteristics; universal test structure; wafer level Vmin sensitivity assessment; CMOS technology; Driver circuits; MOSFETs; Microelectronics; Random access memory; Silicon; Testing; Time measurement; Variable structure systems; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hiroshima
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6912-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6914-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMTS.2010.5466815
  • Filename
    5466815