Imbalance-Tolerant Bit-Line Sense Amplifier for Dummy-Less Open Bit-Line Scheme in DRAM

Kim, Suk Min; Song, Bomi; Jung, Seong‐Ook

doi:10.1109/tcsi.2021.3063183

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“…The bitline nodes at the IO interface can transfer the amplified voltage to the IO bus or be driven by the write drivers with the help of IO transistors. Isolation transistors are only placed in a folded array structure to isolate SAs from different arrays for reuse [20,21]. Based on the conventional sensing circuit, a low power single bitline write (SBW) sensing circuit with reconfigurable I/O interface was also proposed [22,23].…”

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Low-Power Single Bitline Load Sense Amplifier for DRAM

Dai,

Lu,

et al. 2023

Electronics

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With the significant growth in modern computing systems, dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has become a power/performance/energy bottleneck in data-intensive applications. Both the power management mechanism and downscaling method face decreasing performance or difficulties in the smaller footprint of the DRAM capacitor. Since optimizing the circuit of sense amplifier (SA) is an efficient method to reduce energy consumption, we propose two single bitline load sense amplifier (SBLSA) circuits, i.e., a redundant voltage discharged SBLSA (RVD-SBLSA) circuit and a bit aware SBLSA (BA-SBLSA) circuit, to improve conventional and single bitline write (SBW) circuits. The RVD-SBLSA circuit utilizes a clamp diode to discharge redundant voltage over VDD/2 with an additional working stage. The BA-SBLSA circuit abandons the single bitline load (SBL) circuit during read and write ‘1’ operations. The RVD-SBLSA circuit can offer the lowest total energy consumption, and the BA-SBLSA circuit can make a better balance between energy consumption and latency. Through the simulation results, the proposed circuits can efficiently reduce energy consumption or balance energy consumption and latency and show huge potentials in very large-scale integrated circuits.

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