scholarly journals Comprehensive Analysis of SRAM Cell Architectures With 18nm FinFET for Low Power Applications

Author(s):  
T. Santosh Kumar ◽  
Suman Lata Tripathi

Abstract The SRAM cells are used in many applications where power consumption will be the main constraint. The Conventional 6T SRAM cell has reduced stability and more power consumption when technology is scaled resulting in supply voltage scaling, so other alternative SRAM cells from 7T to 12T have been proposed which can address these problems. Here a low power 7T SRAM cell is suggested which has low power consumption and condensed leakage currents and power dissipation. The projected design has a leakage power of 5.31nW and leakage current of 7.58nA which is 84.9% less than the 7T SRAM cell without using the proposed leakage reduction technique and it is 22.4% better than 6T SRAM and 22.1% better than 8T SRAM cell when both use the same leakage reduction technique. The cell area of the 7T SRAM cell is 1.25µM2, 6T SRAM is 1.079µM2 and that of 8T SRAM is 1.28µM2all the results are simulated in cadence virtuoso using 18nm technology.

Author(s):  
N. Geetha Rani ◽  
N. Jyothi ◽  
P. Leelavathi ◽  
P. Deepthi Swarupa Rani ◽  
S. Reshma

SRAM cells are used in many applications such as micro and multi core processor. SRAM cell improves both read stability and write ability at low supply voltage. The objective is to reduce the power dissipation of a novel low power 12T SRAM cell. This method removes half-select issue in 6T and 9T SRAM cell. This work proposes new functional low-power designs of SRAM cells with 6T, 9T and 12 transistors which operate at only 0.4V power supply in sub-threshold operation at 45 nm technology. The leakage power consumption of the proposed SRAM cell is thereby reduced compared to that of the conventional six-transistor (6T) SRAM cell. 12T cell obtains low static power dissipation.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1718
Author(s):  
Neha Gupta ◽  
Ambika Prasad Shah ◽  
Sajid Khan ◽  
Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma ◽  
Michael Waltl ◽  
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This paper proposes an error-tolerant reconfigurable VDD (R-VDD) scaled SRAM architecture, which significantly reduces the read and hold power using the supply voltage scaling technique. The data-dependent low-power 10T (D2LP10T) SRAM cell is used for the R-VDD scaled architecture with the improved stability and lower power consumption. The R-VDD scaled SRAM architecture is developed to avoid unessential read and hold power using VDD scaling. In this work, the cells are implemented and analyzed considering a technologically relevant 65 nm CMOS node. We analyze the failure probability during read, write, and hold mode, which shows that the proposed D2LP10T cell exhibits the lowest failure rate compared to other existing cells. Furthermore, the D2LP10T cell design offers 1.66×, 4.0×, and 1.15× higher write, read, and hold stability, respectively, as compared to the 6T cell. Moreover, leakage power, write power-delay-product (PDP), and read PDP has been reduced by 89.96%, 80.52%, and 59.80%, respectively, compared to the 6T SRAM cell at 0.4 V supply voltage. The functional improvement becomes even more apparent when the quality factor (QF) is evaluated, which is 458× higher for the proposed design than the 6T SRAM cell at 0.4 V supply voltage. A significant improvement of power dissipation, i.e., 46.07% and 74.55%, can also be observed for the R-VDD scaled architecture compared to the conventional array for the respective read and hold operation at 0.4 V supply voltage.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipanjan Sen ◽  
Savio J. Sengupta ◽  
Swarnil Roy ◽  
Manash Chanda ◽  
Subir K. Sarkar

Aims:: In this work, a Junction-Less Double Gate MOSFET (JLDG MOSFET) based CMOS inverter circuit is proposed for ultra-low power applications in the near and sub-threshold regime operations. Background:: D.C. performances like power, delay and voltage swing of the proposed Inverter have been modeled analytically and analyzed in depth. JLDG MOSFET has promising features to reduce the short-channel effects compared to the planner MOSFET because of better gate control mechanism. So, proposed Inverter would be efficacious to offer less power dissipation and higher speed. Objective:: Impact of supply voltage, temperature, High-k gate oxide, TOX, TSI on the power, delay and voltage swing of the Inverter circuits have been detailed here. Methods: Extensive simulations using SILVACO ATLAS have been done to validate the proposed logic based digital circuits. Besides, the optimum supply voltage has been modelled and verified through simulation for low voltage operations. In depth analysis of voltage swing is added to measure the noise immunity of the proposed logic based circuits in Sub & Near-threshold operations. For ultra-low power operation, JLDG MOSFET can be an alternative compared to conventional planar MOSFET. Result:: Hence, the analytical model of delay, power dissipation and voltage swing have been proposed of the proposed logic based circuits. Besides, the ultra-low power JLDG CMOS inverter can be an alternative in saving energy, reduction of power consumption for RFID circuit design where the frequency range is a dominant factor. Conclusion:: The power consumption can be lowered in case of UHF, HF etc. RF circuits using the Double Gate Junction-less MOSFET as a device for circuit design.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 2050158
Author(s):  
M. Elangovan ◽  
K. Gunavathi

The ultimate aim of a memory designer is to design a memory cell which could consume low power with high data stability in the deep nanoscale range. The implementation of Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits using MOSFETs in nanoscale range faces many issues such as increasing of leakage power and second-order effects that are easily affected by the PVT variation. Hence, it is essential to find the best alternative of MOSFET for deep submicron design. The Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET) can eradicate all the demerits of MOSFET and be the best replacement of MOSFET for nanoscale range design. In this paper, a 10T CNTFET Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell is proposed. The power consumption and Static Noise Margin (SNM) are analyzed. The power consumption and stable performance of the proposed 10T CNTFET SRAM cell are compared with that of conventional 10T CNTFET SRAM cell. The power and stability analyses of the proposed 10T and conventional 10T CNTFET SRAM cells are carried out for the CNTFET parameters such as pitch and chiral vector ([Formula: see text]). The power and SNM analyses are carried out for [Formula: see text]20% variation of oxide thickness (Hox), different dielectric constant (Kox). The supply voltage varies from 0.9[Formula: see text]V to 0.6[Formula: see text]V and temperature varies from 27∘C to 125∘C. The simulation results show that the proposed 10T CNTFET SRAM cell consumes lesser power than conventional 10T CNTFET SRAM cell during the write, hold and read modes. The write, hold and read stability of the proposed 10T CNTFET SRAM cell are higher as compared with that of conventional 10T CNTFET SRAM. The conventional and proposed 10T SRAM cells are also implemented using MOSFET. The stability and power performance of proposed 10T SRAM cell is also as good as conventional 10T SRAM for MOSFET implementation. The proposed 10T SRAM cell consumes lesser power and gives higher stability than conventional 10T SRAM cell in both CNTFET and MOSFET implementation. The simulation is carried out using Stanford University 32[Formula: see text]nm CNTFET model in HSPICE simulation tool.


Author(s):  
Neha Raghav ◽  
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Malti Bansal

Nowadays, power dissipation is among the most dominant concerns in designing a VLSI circuits. Endless improvement in technology has points to an increased requirement for devices which have the basic characteristic of low power consumption. Hence power has turn into a demanding design parameter in low power and high-performance applications. The Adiabatic logic technique is becoming a solution to the dilemma of power dissipation. Adders with huge power consumption affect the overall efficiency of the system. Hence, in this paper, the proposed application of full adder circuit is shown using the Modified Glitch Free Cascadable Adiabatic Logic. The circuit is compared with the conventional CMOS Logic and the power dissipation analysis is simulated with supply voltage = 0.9 V, 1.2 V and 1.8 V to analyze the pattern followed with supply variation at different temperature range. Similarly, the calculation of delay is performed for temperature values of 27˚C, 55˚C and 120˚C at 90nm technology.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 10650-10653

The main aim of electronics is to design low power devices due to the prevalent usage of powered gadget. Ultra low voltage operation of memory cells has become a subject of a lot of interest because of its applications in terribly low energy computing. The stable operation of static random access memory (SRAM) is important for the success of low voltage SRAM and it is achieved by parameter variations of scaled technologies. The power consumption and access time of the SRAM is also a complex parameter due to the unavoidable switching activities of the number of transistors used for different blocks like, SRAM cell, access transistors, pre-charge circuit, sense amplifier and decoders. It has been shown that conventional 6T SRAM fail to achieve low power and delay operation. The proposed 10T SRAM design gives an approach towards the hold power dissipation. The designed circuit has 10 transistors out of that 2 transistors are used as sleep transistor. The sleep transistors are used as switches. Such as header and footer switches and the switches are turned on during active mode of operations and turned off during idle or standby mode of operations. The designed SRAM cell also has conducting pMOS circuit, which can reduces the total power dissipation. The SRAM cell is simulated by using Cadence tool. A supply voltage of 1.8V is used which makes it enough for low power applications. The power obtained as 761.7mW, which reduces 15% of conventional 6T SRAM design. The delay obtained as 125.6ns, which reduces 45% of conventional 6T SRAM.


VLSI Design ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Echeverría ◽  
José L. Ayala ◽  
Marisa López-Vallejo

The content-based access of CAMs makes them of great interest in lookup-based operations. However, the large amounts of parallel comparisons required cause an expensive cost in power dissipation. In this work, we present a novel banked precomputation-based architecture for low-power and storage-demanding applications where the reduction of both dynamic and leakage power consumption is addressed. Experimental results show that the proposed banked architecture reduces up to an 89% of dynamic power consumption during the search process while the leakage power consumption is also minimized up to a 91%.


Author(s):  
Manvinder Sharma ◽  
Dishant Khosla ◽  
Sohni Singh ◽  
Pankaj Palta

for the future technologies in which the devices and circuits are integrating more, low power consuming devices are needed. Mostly the reduction of power dissipation work is concentrated on switching and leakage current. However sub threshold current is also a big factor which leads to power consumption especially for memories. In this paper, leakage power of SRAM memory cell is reduced by power gated sleepy stack structure which leads to lesser power dissipation. The power dissipation is reduced to 226 µW with proposed technique compared with power dissipation of conventional 6T SRAM cell which had 740 µW. With lesser power dissipation the circuit can have more battery backup and lesser heat emission


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