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9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (isqed 2008)
Statistical Evaluation of Split Gate Opportunities for Improved 8T/6T Column-Decoupled SRAM Cell Yield
March 17-March 19
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3117-5
We study the yield improvements of mixed/split gate designs in 45nm FinFET technology. The original contributions of this paper are: fast statistical analysis for FinFET designs including 6T and 8T column-decoupled designs, and the proposed low-voltage 6T-column-decoupled SRAM cell using stacked_and FinFET devices. Sensitivities of the cell yield to device design uncertainties and process variations are evaluated. Statistical analysis indicates that column-decoupled cells can help lower the stability requirement on the cell beta ratio and hence relax the design limitations with FinFET technology such as quantization penalties. Furthermore, physical cell image diagrams show that the 6T-decoupled cell suffers very small area penalties compared to the traditional double gate designs. Fast statistical analysis techniques are used to estimate yield trend. Numerical device/circuit mix-mode simulations support the predicted trends. Threshold voltage variations due to random dopant fluctuations are estimated using a macroscopic modeling method. The impact of fin-height variations is also evaluated.
Index Terms:
double gate, sram, yield, stability, decoupled design, 8T, 6T, stacked devices
Citation:
Rouwaida Kanj, Rajiv Joshi, null Keunwoo-Kim, Richard Williams, Sani Nassif, "Statistical Evaluation of Split Gate Opportunities for Improved 8T/6T Column-Decoupled SRAM Cell Yield," isqed, pp.702-707, 9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (isqed 2008), 2008
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