• DocumentCode
    439542
  • Title

    Investigation of cell leakage and data retention in eDRAM

  • Author

    Hashimoto, Masashi ; Baumann, Robert

  • Author_Institution
    Cadence Design Systems, Yokohama, Japan
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    19-21 Sept. 2000
  • Firstpage
    356
  • Lastpage
    359
  • Abstract
    A charge offset scanning method of determining individual cell leakages in DRAM devices is described. The leakage behaviour of cells from the main and tail distributions is compared and the results of data retention studies on a 0.5µm CMOS embedded DRAM technology for ASIC applications are also discussed. An order of magnitude improvement in the retention time of the tail bits was achieved as an outcome of the study.
  • Keywords
    Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Current measurement; Equations; Probability distribution; Random access memory; Semiconductor device measurement; Time measurement; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2000. ESSCIRC '00. Proceedings of the 26rd European
  • Conference_Location
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1471285