• DocumentCode
    2869438
  • Title

    A High-Density Subthreshold SRAM with Data-Independent Bitline Leakage and Virtual Ground Replica Scheme

  • Author

    Kim, Tae-Hyoung ; Liu, Jason ; Keane, John ; Kim, Chris H.

  • Author_Institution
    Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    11-15 Feb. 2007
  • Firstpage
    330
  • Lastpage
    606
  • Abstract
    A 10T SRAM cell with data-independent bitline leakage and a virtual-ground replica scheme allows 1k cells per bitline in subthreshold SRAMs. Reverse short-channel effect is used to improve writability, offer higher speed, reduce junction capacitance, and decrease circuit variability. A 0.13mum, the 480kb SRAM test chip shows a minimum operating voltage of 0.20V.
  • Keywords
    CMOS memory circuits; SRAM chips; low-power electronics; 0.13 micron; 0.20 V; 10T SRAM; 480 kbyte; data-independent bitline leakage; reverse short-channel effect; subthreshold SRAM; virtual-ground replica; writability improvement; CMOS technology; Circuits; Decoding; Delay; Land surface temperature; Leakage current; MOSFETs; Random access memory; Very large scale integration; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. ISSCC 2007. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0853-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0193-6530
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373428
  • Filename
    4242399