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A 128 Kb Single-Bitline 8.4 fJ/Bit 90MHz at 0.3V 7T Sense-Amplifierless SRAM in 28 nm FD-SOI

Mohammadi, Babak LU ; Andersson, Oskar LU ; Nguyen, Joseph ; Ciampolini, Lorenzo ; Cathelin, Andreia and Rodrigues, Joachim LU (2016) European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). 2016
Abstract
In this study, a 128 kb ultra low voltage (ULV) SRAM, based on a 7T bitcell with one bitline, is presented. Overall energy efficiency is enhanced by optimizations on all abstraction levels, i.e., from bitcell to macro integration. Degraded performance and reliability due to ULV operation is recovered by selectively overdriving the bitline and wordline with a new single-cycle charge-pump. A dedicated sense-amplifierless read architecture with a new address decoding scheme delivers 90 MHz read speed at 300 mV, dissipating 8.4 fJ/bit-access. The minimum operating voltage VMIN is measured as 240 mV and the retention voltage is found at 200 mV.
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European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2016
article number
16408290
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). 2016
conference location
Lausanne, Switzerland
conference dates
2016-09-12 - 2016-09-15
external identifiers
  • scopus:84994476444
ISBN
978-1-5090-2972-3
DOI
10.1109/ESSCIRC.2016.7598333
language
English
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  author       = {{Mohammadi, Babak and Andersson, Oskar and Nguyen, Joseph and Ciampolini, Lorenzo and Cathelin, Andreia and Rodrigues, Joachim}},
  booktitle    = {{European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2016}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-5090-2972-3}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{A 128 Kb Single-Bitline 8.4 fJ/Bit 90MHz at 0.3V 7T Sense-Amplifierless SRAM in 28 nm FD-SOI}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2016.7598333}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/ESSCIRC.2016.7598333}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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