Title :
Elimination of half select disturb in 8T-SRAM by local injected electron asymmetric pass gate transistor
Author :
Honda, Kentaro ; Miyaji, Kousuke ; Tanakamaru, Shuhei ; Miyano, Shinji ; Takeuchi, Ken
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
8T-SRAM cell with asymmetric pass gate transistor by local electron injection is proposed to solve half select disturb. Two types of electron injection scheme: both side injection scheme and self-repair one side injection scheme are analyzed comprehensively for 65nm technology node 8T-SRAM cell and also for 6T-SRAM cell. This paper shows that in the 6T-SRAM with the local injected electrons the read speed degrades by as much as 6.3 times. In contrast, the proposed 8T-SRAM cell with the self-repair one side injection scheme is most suitable to solve the conflict of the half select disturb, write disturb and read speed. In the proposed 8T-SRAM, the disturb margin increases by 141% without write margin or read speed degradation. The proposed scheme has no process or area penalty compared with the standard CMOS-process 8T-SRAM.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; half select disturb elimination; local injected electron asymmetric pass gate transistor; self-repair one side injection scheme; side injection scheme; size 65 nm; standard CMOS-process 8T-SRAM; Current measurement; Degradation; Delay; Logic gates; Random access memory; Strontium; Transistors;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5758-8
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.2010.5617440