DocumentCode
164134
Title
Reliability enhanced SRAM bit-cells
Author
Beiu, V. ; Tache, M. ; Kharbash, F.
Author_Institution
Coll. of Inf. Technol., United Arab Emirates Univ., Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
fYear
2014
fDate
13-15 Oct. 2014
Firstpage
229
Lastpage
232
Abstract
Noises and variations are ubiquitous, but are ill-understood and in most cases analyzed simplistically, leading 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 SRAM bit-cells. The unconventionally sized SRAM bit-cells achieve higher SNMs, having the potential to work correctly at supply voltages lower than those achieved using classically sized SRAM bit-cells.
Keywords
SRAM chips; integrated circuit reliability; SNM; reliability enhanced SRAM bit-cell; reliability-centric design method; static noise margin; static random-access memory; unconventional sizing transistor; Logic gates; Noise; Optimized production technology; Reliability; SRAM cells; Transistors; CMOS; SNM; SRAM; reliability; sizing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Semiconductor Conference (CAS), 2014 International
Conference_Location
Sinaia
ISSN
1545-827X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-3916-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SMICND.2014.6966444
Filename
6966444
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