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A 24 kb Single-Well Mixed 3T Gain-Cell eDRAM with Body-Bias in 28 nm FD-SOI for Refresh-Free DSP Applications

Narinx, Jonathan  
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Giterman, Robert  
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Bonetti, Andrea  
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January 1, 2019
2019 Ieee Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-Sscc)
15th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)

Logic-compatible gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is an emerging alternative to conventional SRAM for memory-dominated system-on-chip (SoC) designs due to its high-density, low-power, and two-ported operation. Although GCs have a limited data retention time (DRT) at deeply scaled technology nodes, there are many DSP applications which only require short-term data storage and can therefore avoid refresh. In this paper, we present a novel single-well mixed 3T GC implementation in 28 nm FD-SOI technology. The proposed GC is supplied with body-bias control to improve the DRT by suppressing the leakage through the write port, and extend the maximum operating frequency by forward body-biasing the read port. A 24 kbit GC-eDRAM macro implementing the proposed 3T GC was fabricated in 28 nm FD-SOI technology, resulting in the highest density logic-compatible embedded memory fabricated in any 28 nm process with over 2x higher density compared to a 6T SRAM cell, over 4x higher DRT compared to a conventional 3T GC, and 38 x 47 x lower static power compared to conventional single-ported and two-ported SRAMs.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/A-SSCC47793.2019.9056985
Web of Science ID

WOS:000569524500062

Author(s)
Narinx, Jonathan  
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Giterman, Robert  
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Bonetti, Andrea  
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Frigerio, Nicolas  
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Aprile, Cosimo  
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Burg, Andreas  
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Leblebici, Yusuf  
Date Issued

2019-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Journal
2019 Ieee Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-Sscc)
ISBN of the book

978-1-7281-5106-9

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference Proceedings of Technical Papers

Start page

219

End page

222

Subjects

embedded dram

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REVIEWED

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15th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)

Macao, PEOPLES R CHINA

Nov 04-06, 2019

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October 1, 2020
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