A 14 nm 1.1 Mb Embedded DRAM Macro With 1 ns Access
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...Embedded DRAM (eDRAM) [6]–[8], employing a one-transistor and one-capacitor cell, provides 2....
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...4A data array access without tag check typically takes around 1ns [41, 42] for eDRAMs....
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...Latency-wise, SRAMs usually take one cycle to access, while eDRAMs take between 1ns [41] and 3ns [42]....
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...A key innovation enabling a scaled design without a scaled technology was the development of the 2-Mb eDRAM macro, which doubled the density of the z14 eDRAM solution [15]....
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...in the z14 generation’s 1-Mb macro [15] from Fig....
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"A 14 nm 1.1 Mb Embedded DRAM Macro ..." refers methods in this paper
...IBM introduced trench capacitor eDRAM into its high performance microprocessors beginning with 45nm and Power 7 [1] to provide a higher density cache without chip crossings....
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...1(a), utilizes Replacement Metal Gate (RMG) SOI FinFET devices, resulting in a 33% shrink from the 22 nm bit cell [16], [17]....
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...The pass transistor/access device of the cell is a 3.5 nm thick oxide, fully depleted (FD) FinFET with an undoped channel....
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...This 22 nm design style has been successfully migrated into a 14 nm FinFET eDRAM [20] learning vehicle, complete with an ABIST engine, word-line charge pumps (VPP & VWL), and pad-cage interface circuitry as a system prototype....
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...Hence, FD SOI FinFETs can achieve high write back current without increasing the LBL capacitance, which is a key advantage to previous eDRAM technologies employing planar pass transistors....
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...By nature, SOI fully depleted FinFET devices, have low overall junction capacitance as the only junctions created in the SOI are in the horizontal plane of the device, i.e., between the body of the device and diffusion....
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