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A 1-V 20-ns 512-Kbit MT-CMOS SRAM with auto-power-cut scheme using dummy memory cells

Morishima et al., 1998

Document ID
15818295072510475913
Author
Morishima C
Nii K
Tsujihashi Y
Hayakawa Y
Makino H
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of the 24th European Solid-State Circuits Conference

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A 512-Kbit SRAM using dual threshold voltage transistors has been fabricated. The memory cells are composed of high-threshold voltage transistors and cutting off the power supply to the peripheral circuit reduces the power consumption without data destruction during sleep …
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