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This paper presents NMOS header assist cell (NHAC) that lowers SRAM VMin with minimal power overhead for low power applications. The proposed NHAC, featuring a bitcell-compatible layout, is inserted between cell arrays to provide cell power. NHAC achieves a VMIN improvement of 210 mV with 4% power overhead, even in the high interconnect resistance case, thanks to the continuous self-collapse of ce...Show More
Physically unclonable function (PUF) is a lightweight encryption technique that generates random digital keys (responses) using intrinsic process variations of devices, which is a promising solution for Internet of Things (IoT) security due to its compatibility with constrained resources. Recent attempts to adopt nonvolatile memory (NVM) into PUFs have enhanced stability through a write-back techn...Show More
For applications where a significant amount of data is processed within a limited area, such as mobile and graphics applications, the demand for higher-density SRAM becomes more evident [1]. As shown in Fig. 15.4.1 (top left), SRAM cell area is progressively decreasing with technology scaling to achieve high-density [2]. However, in sub-5nm technology nodes, shown in Fig. 15.4.1 (top right), the r...Show More
Nonvolatile processors (NVPs) are promising for energy-constrained internet-of-things applications in which frequent switch to standby mode occurs due to their fast and energy-efficient backup and restore operations of locally embedded nonvolatile flip-flops (NV-FFs) with zero leakage current. In addition, the most effective method to reduce dynamic energy consumption is to lower the supply voltag...Show More
This paper presents a dual-edge-triggered flip-flop (DET-FF) with redundant internal node transition elimination (RTEDET) to achieve minimal dynamic power consumption. The proposed RTEDET shows lower total power by 37%/39% than the recent low-power flip-flop/conventional DET-FF thanks to the halved CK frequency and the redundant internal node transition elimination. In addition, the proposed RTEDE...Show More
Fast communication between networking devices increases the importance of the ternary content addressable memory (TCAM). The demands for low energy in networking devices have accelerated the research on nonvolatile TCAMs that store data without the power supply. Recently, ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs), nonvolatile three-terminal devices with a high on/off ratio, have been adopted...Show More
This paper presents the SRAM sense amplifier (SA) that can improve read speed by making it tolerant to process variation. By using the body biasing effect, the proposed body bias variation tolerant small-signal sense amplifier (BB-VTS-SA) decreased the standard deviation of offset voltage by 12.4% compared to the original variation tolerant small-signal sense amplifier (VTS-SA).Show More
The ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) is one of the most promising candidates for emerging nonvolatile memory devices owing to its low write energy and high $I_{\mathrm {ON}}/I_{\mathrm {OFF}}$ ratio. For FeFET applications as nonvolatile memory devices, 1FeFET, 1T-1FeFET, 2T-1FeFET, and 3T-1FeFET cells have been proposed. The 1FeFET cell exhibits the highest density but suffers from...Show More
Recently, nonvolatile systems with nonvolatile flip-flops (NVFFs) have gained prominence for their energy efficiency in energy-harvesting devices and battery-operated Internet of Things applications. They are normally-off instantly-on, and thus, can save energy effectively owing to their zero standby power consumption. An NVFF stores the computing state in nonvolatile memories (NVMs) when the powe...Show More