Local Bit-Line SRAM Architecture With Data-Aware Power-Gating Write Assist

Tae Woo Oh; Juhyun Park; Tae Hyun Kim; Keonhee Cho; Seong Ook Jung

doi:10.1109/TCSII.2022.3206478

Local Bit-Line SRAM Architecture With Data-Aware Power-Gating Write Assist

Tae Woo Oh, Juhyun Park, Tae Hyun Kim, Keonhee Cho, Seong Ook Jung

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

In this brief, a local bit-line (LBL) SRAM with data-aware power-gating write assist is proposed for near-threshold operation. The proposed SRAM achieves high read stability and write ability by adopting LBL architecture and power-gating transistors, respectively. Depending on the input data, one of the power-gating transistors is adaptively cut off, which eliminates the write disturbance from the power supply. Thus, reliable write operation can be performed. The proposed SRAM achieves a read stability yield of 5.12σ, write ability yield of 7.26σ, and consumes 0.21 pJ energy/operation with 58% shorter read delay and 33% smaller area per bit than the 12T SRAM at a supply voltage of 0.4 V in a 22-nm FinFET process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	306-310
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Volume	70
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2022.3206478
Publication status	Published - 2023 Jan 1

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