Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Read-Write Memories (RAM)
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM 6-transistor CMOS SRAM Cell
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM CMOS SRAM Analysis (Write)
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM CMOS SRAM Analysis (Read)
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM 1-Transistor DRAM Cell
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM DRAM Cell Observations
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM 1-T DRAM Cell
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Advanced 1T DRAM Cells Cell Plate Si Capacitor Insulator Storage Node Poly 2nd Field Oxide Refilling Poly Si Substrate Trench Cell Stacked-capacitor Cell Capacitor dielectric layer Cell plate Word line Insulating Layer IsolationTransfer gate Storage electrode
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Periphery
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Row Decoders Collection of 2 M complex logic gates Organized in regular and dense fashion (N)AND Decoder NOR Decoder
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Dynamic Decoders
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM 4 input pass-transistor based column decoder
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM 4-to-1 tree based column decoder
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Sense Amplifiers
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Differential Sensing - SRAM
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Latch-Based Sense Amplifier
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Open bitline architecture
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM DRAM Read Process with Dummy Cell
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Open Bit-line Architecture —Cross Coupling
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Alpha-particles
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Yield Yield curves at different stages of process maturity (from [Veendrick92])
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Redundancy
Elettronica T AA Digital Integrated Circuits © Prentice Hall 2003 SRAM & DRAM Redundancy and Error Correction