Challenges and directions for low-voltage SRAM

M Qazi, M Sinangil… - IEEE design & test of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SRAMs capable of operating at extremely low supply voltages-for example, below the
transistor threshold voltage-can enable ultra-low-power battery-operated systems by …

A review of sense amplifiers for static random access memory

J Zhu, N Bai, J Wu - IETE Technical Review, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Sense amplifier (SA) is being viewed as one of the most critical circuits in the periphery of
high-speed, low-power-embedded static random access memory (SRAMs). This paper …

A low-voltage SRAM sense amplifier with offset cancelling using digitized multiple body biasing

B Liu, J Cai, J Yuan, Y Hei - … on Circuits and Systems II: Express …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With continued CMOS technology scaling down, transistors exhibit higher degrees of
variation and mismatch, resulting in a larger offset voltage. A large offset voltage will enlarge …

Atomistic pseudo-transient BTI simulation with inherent workload memory

D Rodopoulos, P Weckx, M Noltsis… - … on Device and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) is a major concern for the reliability of decameter to
nanometer devices. Older modeling approaches fail to capture time-dependent device …

Time and workload dependent device variability in circuit simulations

D Rodopoulos, SB Mahato… - … Conference on IC …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulations of an inverter and a 32-bit SRAM bit slice are performed based on an atomistic
approach. The circuits' devices are populated with individual defects, which have realistic …

A 4.4 pJ/access 80 MHz, 128 kbit variability resilient SRAM with multi-sized sense amplifier redundancy

V Sharma, S Cosemans, M Ashouei… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra low energy, 128 kbit 6T SRAM in 90 nm LP CMOS with energy consumption of 4.4
pJ/access, operating at 80 MHz for the wireless sensor applications is developed. The …

On-chip optical interconnects versus electrical interconnects for high-performance applications

M Stucchi, S Cosemans, J Van Campenhout… - Microelectronic …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, four types of on-chip point-to-point communication links are optimized for low
energy per bit at sufficient bandwidth density for use in high performance applications: on …

A 65 nm, 850 MHz, 256 kbit, 4.3 pJ/access, ultra low leakage power memory using dynamic cell stability and a dual swing data link

B Rooseleer, S Cosemans… - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of a high-speed ultra low power SRAM memory. Divided bit
lines improve dynamic cell stability while at the same time decreasing active energy …

Hardware Accelerated Reusable Merkle Tree Generation for Bitcoin Blockchain Headers

K Jeon, J Lee, B Kim, JJ Kim - IEEE Computer Architecture …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the value of Bitcoin increases, the difficulty level of mining keeps increasing. This is
generally addressed with application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), but block …

System-level assessment and area evaluation of spin wave logic circuits

O Zografos, P Raghavan, L Amaru, B Sorée… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Spin Wave Devices (SWDs) are promising candidates for scaling electronics beyond the
domain of CMOS. In contrast to traditional charge-based technologies, SWDs rely on …