An automatic temperature compensation of internal sense ground for subquarter micron DRAM´s

Author

Ooishi, Tsukasa ; Komiya, Yuichiro ; Hamade, Kei ; Asakura, Mikio ; Yasuda, Kenichi ; Furutani, Kiyohiro ; Hidaka, Hideto ; Miyamoto, Hiroshi ; Ozaki, Hideyuki

Author_Institution

ULSI Lab., Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Hyogo, Japan

Volume

30

Issue

4

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

471

Lastpage

479

Abstract

This paper describes DRAM array driving techniques and the parameter scaling techniques for low voltage operation using the boosted sense ground (BSG) scheme and further improved methods. Temperature compensation and adjustable internal voltage levels maintain a small subthreshold leakage current for a memory cell transistor (MC-Tr), and a distributed BSG (DBSG) scheme and a column decoded sensing (CDS) scheme achieve the effective scaling. These schemes can set the DRAM array free from the leakage current problem and the influence of temperature variations. Therefore, parameters for the MC-Tr, threshold voltage (V _th), and the boosted voltage for the gate bias can be scaled down, and it is possible to determine the V_th of the MC-Tr simply (0.45 V at K=0.4) for the satisfaction of the small leakage current, for high speed and stable operation, and for high reliability (V_PP is below 2 V_CC). They are applicable to subquarter micron DRAM´s of 256 Mb and more

Keywords

DRAM chips; compensation; integrated circuit reliability; leakage currents; 2 V; DRAM array driving techniques; adjustable internal voltage levels; automatic temperature compensation; boosted sense ground scheme; column decoded sensing; gate bias; high reliability; internal sense ground; low voltage operation; parameter scaling techniques; stable operation; subquarter micron DRAM; subthreshold leakage current; threshold voltage; Circuits; Decoding; Land surface temperature; Leakage current; Low voltage; Power system reliability; Random access memory; Subthreshold current; Temperature sensors; Threshold voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.375968

Filename

375968