TY - GEN
T1 - On SRAM bit-cells once again
AU - Tache, Mihai
AU - Kharbash, Fekri
AU - Beiu, Valeriu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/16
Y1 - 2014/12/16
N2 - Noises and variations are ubiquitous, but are still being ill-understood and in most cases treated simplistically, leading in most cases to substantial overdesign costs. A novel reliability-centric design method based on unconventionally sizing transistors has been suggested lately. In this paper our aim is to design, simulate, and compare the benefits of unconventional sizing when applied to ultra-low voltage (ULV) SRAM cells. We will show that unconventionally sized SRAM cells achieve higher SNM's than classically sized SRAM cells (hence it is to be expected that they will work correctly at lower supply voltages).
AB - Noises and variations are ubiquitous, but are still being ill-understood and in most cases treated simplistically, leading in most cases to substantial overdesign costs. A novel reliability-centric design method based on unconventionally sizing transistors has been suggested lately. In this paper our aim is to design, simulate, and compare the benefits of unconventional sizing when applied to ultra-low voltage (ULV) SRAM cells. We will show that unconventionally sized SRAM cells achieve higher SNM's than classically sized SRAM cells (hence it is to be expected that they will work correctly at lower supply voltages).
KW - CMOS
KW - SRAM
KW - reliability
KW - static noise margin (SNM)
KW - transistor sizing
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U2 - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2014.6987566
DO - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2014.6987566
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946226833
T3 - 2014 10th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2014
SP - 80
EP - 83
BT - 2014 10th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 10th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2014
Y2 - 9 November 2014 through 11 November 2014
ER -