Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-020-01578-5
Design and Analysis of SRAM cell using Body Bias Controller
for Low Power Applications
Jitendra Kumar Mishra
1
· Bharat Bhushan Upadhyay
1
·
Prasanna Kumar Misra
1
· Manish Goswami
1
Received: 4 May 2020 / Revised: 15 October 2020 / Accepted: 17 October 2020
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
Low power consumption of electronic devices has become one of the most desirable
factors in the present day’s technology. Static random access memory (SRAM) being
an integral part of most of the electronic gadget suffers from leakage current which
results in static power dissipation and subsequently affects its performance particularly
during standby or hold mode. This becomes crucial especially for those systems which
are portable and have limited power supply. This work therefore proposes a body bias
controller implemented with a 7T SRAM cell at 28 nm CMOS technology node
which lowers the static power consumption and increases the hold static noise margin
(HSNM) of SRAM during standby mode by changing the threshold voltage. Moreover,
it also reduces write delay due to reduction in threshold voltage of proposed design
without having a significant effect on write static noise margin and read static noise
margin. It has been noticed that there is a reduction of 40%, 28%, 41.9% and 30% in
static power dissipation whereas there is an enhancement of 19%, 14.2%, 6.6% and
5.2% in HSNM of the proposed design when compared to 6T SRAM cell, 7T SRAM
cell, WRE8T SRAM cell and 9T SRAM cell, respectively. The proposed design can
thus be a suitable alternative for low power SRAMs.
Keywords Body bias controller · 7T SRAM cell · Static power dissipation ·
Stability · Delay
B Manish Goswami
manishgoswami@iiita.ac.in
Jitendra Kumar Mishra
Jithin.mishra@gmail.com
Bharat Bhushan Upadhyay
imi2017006@iiita.ac.in
Prasanna Kumar Misra
prasanna@iiita.ac.in
1
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Allahabad (Prayagraj), India