A 28nm high-k metal-gate SRAM with Asynchronous Cross-Couple Read Assist (AC2RA) circuitry achieving 3x reduction on speed variation for single ended arrays

Autor:	Chih-Chieh Chiu, Jung-Ping Yang, Wei-Shuo Kao, Chia-En Huang, Hong-Chen Cheng, Jonathan Chang, Robin Lee, Hong-Jen Liao
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Reduction (complexity) Engineering Variation (linguistics) business.industry Asynchronous communication Electronic engineering Electrical engineering Process (computing) Static random-access memory business Access time High-κ dielectric
Zdroj:	VLSIC
Popis:	Asynchronous Cross-Couple Read Assist (AC2RA) circuitry scheme was invented for single-ended sensing to minimize speed variation in 28nm HKMG process. It improves SRAM array speed variation by 63.3% which is adequate to cover 6σ variation. Access time is also boosted by faster sensing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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