Title :
A novel sort error hardened 10T SRAM cells for low voltage operation
Author :
Jung, In-Seok ; Kim, Yong-Bin ; Lombardi, Fabrizio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, two types of a soft error hardened 10T SRAM cells with high static noise margin (SNM) are proposed for low voltage operation. The proposed NMOS stacked SRAM cell operates normally with higher read SNM near to sub-threshold region compared to prior works. Simulated results using 0.18um standard CMOS process demonstrate that proposed NMOS stacked-10T cell has high read SNM and high soft error resilience of at least 100 times higher than unprotected standard 6T SRAM cell for a single event transient (SET).
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; SRAM chips; low-power electronics; CMOS process; NMOS stacked SRAM cell; low voltage operation; single event transient; size 0.18 mum; soft error hardened 10T SRAM cells; soft error resilience; static noise margin; Digital audio players; MOS devices; Noise; Random access memory; Standards; Transient analysis; Transistors;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2012 IEEE 55th International Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Boise, ID
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2526-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1548-3746
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2012.6292120