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A ReRAM-Based Non-Volatile Flip-Flop with Sub-VT Read and CMOS Voltage-Compatible Write

Giovanni De Micheli, Andreas Peter Burg, Davide Sacchetto, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

The total power budget of Ultra-Low Power (ULP) VLSI Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) is often dominated by the leakage power of embedded memories and pipeline registers, which typically cannot be power-gated during sleep periods as they need to retain data and prog ...

2013

Power, Area, and Performance Optimization of Standard Cell Memory Arrays Through Controlled Placement

Andreas Peter Burg, Luca Benini, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

Embedded memory remains a major bottleneck in current integrated circuit design in terms of silicon area, power dissipation, and performance; however, static random access memories (SRAMs) are almost exclusively supplied by a small number of vendors throug ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

Ultra Low Voltage Synthesizable Memories: A Trade-Off Discussion in 65 nm CMOS

Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Oskar Andersson

In this study, design considerations for ultra low voltage (ULV) standard-cell based memories (SCM) are presented. Trade-offs for area cost, leakage power, access time, and access energy are discussed and realized using different read logic styles, latch a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Exploration of Sub-VT and Near-VT 2T Gain-Cell Memories for Ultra-Low Power Applications under Technology Scaling

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Robert Giterman

Ultra-low power applications often require several kb of embedded memory and are typically operated at the lowest possible operating voltage (VDD) to minimize both dynamic and static power consumption. Embedded memories can easily dominate the overall sili ...

2013

Single-Supply 3T Gain-Cell for Low-Voltage Low-Power Applications

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Robert Giterman

Logic compatible gain cell (GC) embedded DRAM (eDRAM) arrays are considered an alternative to SRAM due to their small size, non-ratioed operation, low static leakage, and 2-port functionality. However, traditional GC-eDRAM implementations require boosted c ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Energy versus Data Integrity Trade-Offs in Embedded High-Density Logic Compatible Dynamic Memories

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Robert Giterman, Adam Shmuel Teman

Current variation aware design methodologies, tuned for worst-case scenarios, are becoming increasingly pessimistic from the perspective of power and performance. A good example of such pessimism is setting the refresh rate of DRAMs according to the worst- ...

2015

A 15.8 pJ/bit/iter quasi-cyclic LDPC decoder for IEEE 802.11n in 90 nm CMOS

Andreas Peter Burg, Christoph Studer, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

We present a low-power quasi-cyclic (QC) low density parity check (LDPC) decoder that meets the throughput requirements of the highest-rate (600 Mbps) modes of the IEEE 802.11n WLAN standard. The design is based on the layered offset-min-sum algorithm and ...

IEEE2010

Refresh-Free Dynamic Standard-Cell Based Memories: Application to a QC-LDPC Decoder

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Andrea Bonetti

The area and power consumption of low-density parity check (LDPC) decoders are typically dominated by embedded memories. To alleviate such high memory costs, this paper exploits the fact that all internal memories of a LDPC decoder are frequently updated w ...

2015

Standard-Cell Based Memories (SCMs): from Sub-VT to Error-Resilient Systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

Embedded memories consume an increasingly dominant part of the overall area and power of a large variety of systems-on-chip [ITRS’09]: 1) biomedical implants and wireless sensor networks require robust memories operating in the sub-VT domain; 2) many handh ...

2012

A 500 fW/bit 14 fJ/bit-access 4kb Standard-Cell Based Sub-VT Memory in 65nm CMOS

Oskar Andersson, Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

Ultra-low power (ULP) biomedical implants and sensor nodes typically require small memories of a few kb, while previous work on reliable subthreshold (sub-Vt) memories targets several hundreds of kb. Standard-cell based memories (SCMs) are a straightforwar ...

2012

Energy/Reliability Trade-Offs in Low-Voltage ReRAM-Based Non-Volatile Flip-Flop Design

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Andreas Peter Burg, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Davide Sacchetto, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

The total power budget of Ultra-Low Power (ULP) VLSI Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) is often dominated by the leakage power of embedded memories as well as status registers. On the one hand, supply voltage scaling down to the near-threshold (near-VT

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

4T Gain-Cell with internal-feedback for ultra-low retention power at scaled CMOS nodes

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Robert Giterman

Gain-Cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) has recently been recognized as a possible alternative to traditional SRAM. While GC-eDRAM inherently provides high-density, low-leakage, low-voltage, and 2-ported operation, its limited retention time requires periodic, ...

IEEE2014

Impact of body biasing on the retention time of gain-cell memories

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

Gain-cell-based embedded dynamic random-access memory (DRAMs) are a potential high-density alternative to mainstream static random-access memory (SRAM). However, the limited data retention time of these dynamic bitcells results in the need for power-consum ...

2013

Two-Port Low-Power Gain-Cell Storage Array: Voltage Scaling and Retention Time

Rashid Iqbal, Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

The impact of supply voltage scaling on the retention time of a 2-transistor (2T) gain-cell (GC) storage array is investigated, in order to enable low-power/low-voltage data storage. The retention time can be increased when scaling down the supply voltage ...

2012

A Process Compensated Gain Cell Embedded-DRAM for Ultra-Low-Power Variation-Aware Design

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Robert Giterman

Gain cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a high-density alternative to SRAM for ultra-low-power systems. However, due to its dynamic nature, GC-eDRAM requires power-hungry refresh cycles to ensure data retention. Traditional design approaches dictate configur ...

Ieee2016

Design and failure analysis of logic-compatible multilevel gain-cell-based DRAM for fault-tolerant VLSI systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

This paper considers the problem of increasing the storage density in fault-tolerant VLSI systems which require only limited data retention times. To this end, the concept of storing many bits per memory cell is applied to area-efficient and fully logic-co ...

ACM Press2011

Benchmarking of standard-cell based memories in the sub-VT domain in 65-nm CMOS technology

Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

In this paper, standard-cell based memories (SCMs) are proposed as an alternative to full-custom sub-VT SRAM macros for ultra-low-power systems requiring small memory blocks. The energy per memory access as well as the maximum achievable throughput in the ...

2011

Novel Approaches Toward Area- and Energy-Efficient Embedded Memories

Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

EPFL2014

Replica Bit-Line Technique for Embedded Multilevel Gain-Cell DRAM

Muhammad Umer Khalid, Andreas Peter Burg, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen

Multilevel gain-cell DRAMs are interesting to improve the area-efficiency of modern fault-tolerant systems-on-chip implemented in deep-submicron CMOS technologies. This paper addresses the problem of long access times in such multilevel gain-cell DRAMs, wh ...

Ieee2012

FireBird: PowerPC e200 Based SoC for High Temperature Operation

Yusuf Leblebici, Andreas Peter Burg, Thomas Maeder, Pascal Andreas Meinerzhagen, Conor Joseph Slater, Carl Christian Sten Dominic Senning, Ömer Cogal, Radisav Cojbasic

PowerPC Architecture microcontrollers are commonly used in embedded applications. In this work we present FireBird, the first PowerPC based SoC for reliable operation beyond 200C. It is a significant challenge to design SoCs for reliable operation at high ...

2013