Title :
Method for resolving simultaneous same-row access in Dual-Port 8T SRAM with asynchronous dual-clock operation
Author :
Nan-Chun Lien ; Ching-Te Chuang ; Wen-Rong Wu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
This work proposes a novel Dual-Port (DP) 8T SRAM operation scheme. The scheme improves the Read stability and Write-ability, and allows asynchronous operation with arbitrary clock timing skew between two ports. It facilitates high performance, low-power and low VMIN with minimum device and area overhead. Post-simulation results show almost no timing penalty for simultaneous same-row access and the performance is almost the same as that for one port operation.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; clocks; low-power electronics; DP 8T SRAM operation scheme; arbitrary clock timing skew; area overhead; asynchronous dual-clock operation; dual-port 8T SRAM; read stability; simultaneous same-row access; write-ability; Abstracts; Arrays; Random access memory; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
SOC Conference (SOCC), 2013 IEEE 26th International
Conference_Location :
Erlangen
DOI :
10.1109/SOCC.2013.6749669