An 8T Subthreshold SRAM Cell Utilizing Reverse Short Channel Effect for Write Margin and Read Performance Improvement

Proceedings of the IEEE 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 241-244

  Kim, Tae Hyoung ^a   Liu, Jason ^a   Kim, Chris H ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

AREA OVERHEAD; LONG CHANNEL DEVICES; READ PERFORMANCE; REVERSE SHORT CHANNEL EFFECTS; SUBTHRESHOLD; SUBTHRESHOLD SRAM CELLS; WRITE MARGIN;

CELLS;

EID: 57849151111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2007.4405723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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