Title :
Design and analysis of Thin-BOX FD/SOI devices for low-power and stable SRAM in sub-50nm technologies
Author :
Mukhopadhyay, Saibal ; Keunwoo Kim ; Ching-Te Chuang
Author_Institution :
IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper demonstrates viable device design options for low-leakage and robust SRAM in sub-50nm FD/SOI technology. We explore the possibilities of reducing the body-doping of FD/SOI devices with proper tuning of back-gate bias or gate workfunction to achieve a given leakage target. The reduction of body-doping density helps reduce the effect of the random dopant fluctuation (RDF), while the Vt and leakage are controlled using the back-gate bias. Our analysis show that, body-doping reduction combined with back-gate biasing is the most efficient FD/SOI device design for low-leakage and robust SRAM.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; integrated circuit design; silicon-on-insulator; voltage control; back-gate bias; body-doping density reduction; buried-oxide fully-depleted silicon-on- insulator device; device design; leakage control; low-leakage SRAM; low-power SRAM; random dopant fluctuation; thin-BOX FD-SOI devices; voltage control; Circuit simulation; Doping profiles; Geometry; Leakage current; Niobium; Random access memory; Resource description framework; Robustness; Silicon; Stability; FD/SOI; SRAM; low-power; stability;
Conference_Titel :
Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2007 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-59593-709-4
DOI :
10.1145/1283780.1283786