• 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