• DocumentCode
    1689555
  • Title

    A New SRAM Cell Design for Both Power and Performance Efficiency

  • Author

    Chiang, Yen-Ting ; Chang, Yen-Jen

  • Author_Institution
    Dep. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Chung-Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Lastpage
    19
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a new six-transistor static random access memory (6 T SRAM) cell with significantly reduced power consumption that achieves high read and write performance. Unlike traditional 6 T SRAMs, this study proposes an asymmetric 6 T SRAM which uses a single line to implement read or write operations without reducing performance. This design not only reduces power consumption, but also improves read and write performance. The proposed SRAM design is implemented with UMC 90 nm, 1.0-V supply voltage CMOS technologies. Compared to conventional six transistor SRAM cells, the new cell design successfully power consumption by 40-60%. In addition, the read and write performance has been improved by 13.6% and 41.2%.
  • Keywords
    CMOS memory circuits; SRAM chips; integrated circuit design; CMOS technologies; SRAM cell design; magnetic flux density 6 T; read-write performance; six-transistor static random access memory; size 90 nm; voltage 1.0 V; CMOS technology; Circuits; Computer science; Conferences; Energy consumption; Gate leakage; Power engineering and energy; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Threshold voltage; 6T; high performance; low power; sram;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Memory Technology, Design, and Testing, 2009. MTDT '09. IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Hsinchu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3797-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MTDT.2009.13
  • Filename
    5279850