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Abstract
In sub-100 nm generation, gate-tunneling leakage current increases and dominates the total standby leakage current of LSIs based on decreasing gate-oxide thickness. Showing that the gate leakage current is effectively reduced by lowering the gate voltage, we propose a local DC level control (LDLC) for static random access memory (SRAM) cell arrays and an automatic gate leakage suppression driver (AGLSD) for peripheral circuits. We designed and analyzed a 32 kb 1-port SRAM using 45 nm CMOS technology. The six-transistor SRAM cell size is 1.25 µm2. Evaluation shows that the standby current of 32 kb SRAM is 1.2 µA at 1.2 V and room temperature. It was reduced to 7.5% of the conventional SRAM.
Key words: Embedded static random access memory (SRAM), gate leakage, low power, standby current, random access memory (RAM).
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