• DocumentCode
    3433309
  • Title

    Ultra Low Voltage Operation with Bootstrap Scheme for Single Power Supply SOI-SRAM

  • Author

    Iijima, Masaaki ; Kitamura, Masayuki ; Numa, Masahiro ; Tada, Akira ; Ipposhi, Takashi

  • Author_Institution
    Kobe Univ.
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    Jan. 2007
  • Firstpage
    609
  • Lastpage
    614
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an SOI-SRAM design employing a bootstrap scheme for ultra low voltage operation. The active body-biasing control (ABC) with PD-SOI is a key idea to enhance the boosting effect owing to a strong capacitive coupling. Our ABC-bootstrap scheme enables boosting the word line (WL) voltage higher than the supply voltage in short transition time without dual power supply rails. Simulation results have shown improvement in both the access time and operation at ultra low supply voltage less than 0.5V
  • Keywords
    SRAM chips; bootstrap circuits; low-power electronics; silicon-on-insulator; SRAM chips; active body-biasing control; bootstrap scheme; capacitive coupling; silicon-on-insulator; Boosting; Dynamic voltage scaling; Energy consumption; Frequency; Low voltage; Power supplies; Rails; Random access memory; Threshold voltage; Voltage control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Design, 2007. Held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems., 20th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bangalore
  • ISSN
    1063-9667
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2762-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSID.2007.175
  • Filename
    4092109