Title :
Analysis of fin height on FinFET SRAM cell hardening
Author :
Villacorta, Hector ; Segura, Jaume ; Bota, Sebastia ; Champac, Victor
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. for Astrophys., Opt. & Electron., Mexico City, Mexico
Abstract :
Radiation soft reliability is showing a declining with technology scaling. Because of this new techniques are required to add resilience to the chips. In this work, we analyze the impact of channel width modulation of FinFET SRAM cell transistors by increasing the fin height of FinFET transistor on FinFET SRAM cell hardening. TCAD simulations of the memory cell are carried-out. Results are presented for a 10nm-SOI Tri-Gate FinFET technology. We show that increasing the fin height of FinFET SRAM cell transistors, may not be effective to improve SRAM cell hardening to heavy ions.
Keywords :
MOSFET circuits; SRAM chips; integrated circuit reliability; radiation hardening (electronics); FinFET SRAM cell hardening; SOI trigate FinFET technology; TCAD simulations; channel width modulation; fin height analysis; heavy ions; memory cell; radiation soft reliability; size 10 nm; technology scaling; FinFETs; Physics; Random access memory; Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2014 IEEE 57th International Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
College Station, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4134-6
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2014.6908504