DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF AVERAGE 8T SRAM WITH EXISTING 8T SRAM CELLS

Abstract

This paper presents 8T SRAM cell by using various techniques. The conflicting design requirement of read versus write operation in a conventional 8T SRAM bit cell is eliminated using separate read/write access transistors The read stability and the write-ability can be optimized independently by optimizing the respective access transistor size. A new average-8T write/read decoupled SRAM architecture for low-power sub/near-threshold SRAM used in power-constraint applications such as biomedical implants and autonomous sensor nodes. The proposed architecture consists of several novel concepts in dealing with issues in sub/near-threshold SRAM including the differential and data-independent-leakage read port that facilitates robust and faster read operation Simulation result of 8T SRAM design using TANNER tool shows the reduction in total average power and delay.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150293