• DocumentCode
    3765036
  • Title

    Power efficient design of a novel SRAM cell with higher write ability

  • Author

    Debasish Nayak;D.P. Acharya;K.K. Mahapatra

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    The modern high-performance portable communication devices are the key to make the world more inclusive than before. There is a great demand for high-performance SOC inside the high-performance portable devices. According to ITRS and current research, on chip memory technology plays a great role in the SOC performance. Hence enhancing on-chip memory performance will lead to performance enhancement of the device. A novel SRAM cell is designed which reduces the total power consumption by 15.33%. It also increases the write-ability by 63.61% with respect to the conventional 6T-SRAM cell. It blocks the short-circuit current during state transition to reduce the dynamic power consumption. During a write operation, it initiates the feedback loop process for data latching, earlier than the 6T-SRAM cell which increases the write-ability of the proposed cell by a large amount. A thorough analysis about power consumption, write-ability and physical layout design of the proposed cell array is carried out and compared with that of a conventional 6T-SRAM cell array.
  • Keywords
    "SRAM cells","Performance evaluation","System-on-chip","Layout","Voltage measurement","Feedback loop"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    India Conference (INDICON), 2015 Annual IEEE
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2325-9418
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INDICON.2015.7443739
  • Filename
    7443739