The Design and Characterization of a Half-Volt 32 nm Dual-Read 6T SRAM Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Dual read port 6-transistor (6T) SRAMs play a critical role in high-performance cache designs thanks to doubling of access bandwidth, but stability and sensing challenges typically limit the low-voltage operation. We report a high-performance dual read port 8-way set associative 6T SRAM with a one clock cycle access latency, in a 32 nm metal-gate partially depleted SOI process technology, for low-voltage applications. Hardware exhibits a robust operation at 348 MHz and 0.5 V with a read and write power of 3.33 and 1.97 mW, respectively, per 4.5 KB active array when both read ports are accessed at the highest switching activity data pattern. At a 0.6 V supply, an access speed of 1.2 GHz is observed. 2011 IEEE.

published proceedings

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers

author list (cited authors)

  • Kuang, J. B., Schaub, J. D., Gebara, F. H., Wendel, D., Frhnel, T., Saroop, S., Nassif, S., & Nowka, K.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Kuang, Jente B||Schaub, Jeremy D||Gebara, Fadi H||Wendel, Dieter||Fröhnel, Thomas||Saroop, Sudesh||Nassif, Sani||Nowka, Kevin

publication date

  • September 2011