• DocumentCode
    3269620
  • Title

    A 400 MHz 4.5 Mb synchronous BiCMOS SRAM with alternating bit-line loads

  • Author

    Suzuki, A. ; Kobayashi, T. ; Hamano, T. ; Hatada, H. ; Kawasumi, A. ; Matsuoka, F. ; Ishimaru, K. ; Takahashi, M. ; Nishigohri, M. ; Okayama, Y. ; Unno, Y. ; Kakumu, M. ; Tsujimoto, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Semicond. Device Eng. Lab., Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    10-10 Feb. 1996
  • Firstpage
    146
  • Lastpage
    147
  • Abstract
    This SRAM explores the feasibility of high-capacity, high-speed off-chip cache memories. The SRAM has a 4.5 Mb capacity with a 128 k/spl times/36 b and 256 k/spl times/18 b configuration. It is fabricated in 0.3 /spl mu/m BiCMOS technology. Alternating bit-line loads and skew-compensated write circuitry with a switched delay decoder are used to raise maximum clock frequency.
  • Keywords
    BiCMOS memory circuits; SRAM chips; cache storage; 0.3 micron; 4.5 Mbit; 400 MHz; alternating bit-line loads; high-speed off-chip cache memory; skew-compensated write circuitry; switched delay decoder; synchronous BiCMOS SRAM; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Cache memory; Clocks; Decoding; Delay; Pipelines; Random access memory; Registers; Steady-state; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1996. Digest of Technical Papers. 42nd ISSCC., 1996 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3136-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.1996.488546
  • Filename
    488546