Title :
UTBB FD-SOI front- and back-gate coupling aware random telegraph signal impact analysis on a 6T SRAM
Author :
Akyel, K.C. ; Ciampolini, L. ; Thomas, O. ; Turgis, D. ; Ghibaudo, G.
Author_Institution :
STMicroelectron., Crolles, France
Abstract :
This work investigates the impact of Random Telegraph Signal (RTS) noise on a 6-Transistor Single-P-Well Static Random Access Memory (6T-SRAM) in 28nm Ultra-Thin Body and Buried Oxide Fully-Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (UTBB FD-SOI) technology. RTS noise impact is observed through Write-Ability measurements on a 143Kb SRAM macro. A SPICE-level bias- and time-dependent RTS model peculiar to UTBB FD-SOI, introducing the back-gate as a second RTS noise source and considering the front- and back-gate coupling, is used for simulations to confirm silicon observations. It is shown that the body-biasing feature of UTBB FD-SOI does not introduce critical RTS noise compared to the one originated from the device front gate.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; integrated circuit modelling; integrated circuit noise; random noise; silicon-on-insulator; 6-transistor single-P-well static random access memory; 6T SRAM; RTS noise impact; RTS noise source; SPICE-level bias-dependent RTS model; SPICE-level time-dependent RTS model; SRAM macro; Si; UTBB FD-SOI technology; UTBB FDSOI front-gate-back-gate coupling; device front gate; random telegraph signal noise impact; silicon observations; size 28 nm; ultrathin-body-buried oxide fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator technology; write-ability measurements; Bit error rate; Couplings; Dielectrics; Logic gates; Mathematical model; Noise; Random access memory;
Conference_Titel :
SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Millbrae, CA
DOI :
10.1109/S3S.2014.7028222