DocumentCode
3015422
Title
A low-cost low-power non-volatile memory for RFID applications
Author
Dagan, Hadar ; Teman, Adam ; Fish, Alexander ; Pikhay, Evgeny ; Dayan, Vladislav ; Roizin, Yakov
Author_Institution
Low Power Circuits and Systems Lab (LPC&S), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be´er Sheva, Israel
fYear
2012
fDate
20-23 May 2012
Firstpage
1827
Lastpage
1830
Abstract
One of the main obstacles delaying a more widespread use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is cost. A critical element of any RFID system is a low power embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) that can be fabricated without additional masks to the core CMOS process. In this paper, we present a 256-bit re-writeable NVM array, implemented in the TowerJazz 0.18µm CMOS process using only standard logic process steps and masks. Based on the single-poly C-Flash bitcell, this array achieves an extremely low static power figure of 3.8µW during operation cycles.
Keywords
Arrays; Capacitors; Decoding; Logic gates; Nonvolatile memory; Radiofrequency identification;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Seoul, Korea (South)
ISSN
0271-4302
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0218-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271623
Filename
6271623
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