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Body Biasing Scheme to Control Leakage, Speed and Stability in SRAM Cell Design
| International Conference on Computing, Communication and Sensor Network |
| Foundation of Computer Science USA |
| CCSN2014 - Number 1 |
| June 2015 |
| Authors: Rohit Lorenzo, Saurabh Chaudhury |
| ee685a35-d594-47fb-87bf-d362a12f7e2c |
Rohit Lorenzo, Saurabh Chaudhury . Body Biasing Scheme to Control Leakage, Speed and Stability in SRAM Cell Design. International Conference on Computing, Communication and Sensor Network. CCSN2014, 1 (June 2015), 11-15.
Abstract
In this paper a new SRAM cell is designed with a body bias controller to control leakage, speed and stability. A novel controller circuit is proposed to control the value of threshold voltage. Operation of the proposed controller is based on word line signal levels. In order to reduce sub threshold leakage current, the NMOS access and driver transistor is adjusted to a higher threshold voltage. Similarly, threshold voltage of NMOS access transistor is adjusted to a low value for improved read and writes speed. As compared to conventional 6T SRAM cell, the proposed design reduces the leakage power by about 52. 27%, when tested on (8×16) SRAM cells.
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