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Wide-voltage SRAM time sequence tracking circuit

A timing tracking, wide voltage technology, applied in information storage, static memory, digital memory information and other directions, can solve the problems of increased delay variation, complex circuit structure, poor voltage tracking performance, etc.

Pending Publication Date: 2020-07-24
NANJING PROCHIP ELECTRONIC TECH CO LTD
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However, the ever-decreasing operating voltage and ever-shrinking process nodes have brought great process changes, making the design of wide-voltage SRAM timing tracking circuits a great design challenge
[0003] There are two major problems in the design of wide-voltage SRAM timing tracking circuits: First, as the power supply voltage decreases, local process deviations cause (Sense Amplifier Enable, SAE) delay changes to increase sharply, deteriorating the read performance of SRAM
Second, the design margins are different under different voltages, and the voltage tracking performance of the traditional replica bit line circuit is poor
However, the circuit structure of the discharge switching module is complex, and the enablement of the copy word line needs to be realized through the mutual influence between the node voltages, so the risk of delay due to the process will also increase accordingly.

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[0051] Example 1. The invention provides a wide-voltage SRAM timing tracking circuit, which is suitable for replicating a bit line discharge circuit. The timing tracking circuit includes a discharge switching module and a configurable SRAM timing logic module. In this preferred embodiment, the replica bit line discharge circuit adopts a traditional one-line replica bit line circuit, using 128bitcells / BL, without adding additional layout area, and the capacitance of the unilateral bit line is exactly the same as the traditional solution. figure 1 The circuit structures of the discharge switching module, the configurable SRAM sequential logic module and the replica bit line discharge circuit are shown. The in-line replicated bit line discharge circuit includes: 2K replicated bit line discharge cells (Replica Cell, RC) and J groups of redundant cells (Dummy Cell, DC). Each replicated bit line discharge cell RC has two input terminals and two output terminals. The first input ter...

Embodiment 2

[0057] Example 2. The circuit of the discharge switching model proposed by the present invention is as follows image 3 shown on the left.

[0058] The discharge switching module includes: a first PMOS transistor P1, a second PMOS transistor P2, a third PMOS transistor P3, a fourth PMOS transistor P4, a fifth PMOS transistor P5, a sixth PMMOS transistor P6, a first NMOS transistor N1, and a second NMOS transistor tube N2, third NMOS tube N3, first inverter INV_1, second inverter INV_2, third inverter INV_3, fourth inverter INV_4, fifth inverter INV_5, sixth inverter INV_6 , a seventh inverter INV_7, a first NAND gate NAND_1, a first dynamic circuit, and a second dynamic circuit.

[0059] Further, the first PMOS transistor P1, the second PMOS transistor P2, the third PMOS transistor P3, the fourth PMOS transistor P4, the fifth PMOS transistor P5, and the sixth PMOS transistor P6 are all P-type MOS transistors, and the first NMOS transistors N1, The second NMOS transistor N2 ...

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[0075] Example 3. The circuit structure of the configurable SRAM sequential logic module proposed by the present invention is as follows: Figure 4 shown. The configurable SRAM sequential logic module uses the clock pulse CK output by the discharge switching module as the clock signal of the sequential logic module, and outputs the sense amplifier signal SAE and the word line signal WL. The configurable SRAM sequential logic module includes: a single pulse generation circuit and a pulse shift circuit. The single-pulse generating circuit uses the clock pulse CK as the clock signal of the circuit, and the output signal is the pulse signal PULSE, and the high-level pulse width of the pulse signal PULSE is consistent with the period of the clock pulse CK. The input signal of the pulse shift circuit is the pulse signal CK, and a pure shift register is used to generate and output the sense amplifier signal SAE and the word line signal WL.

[0076] The single pulse generating circ...

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Abstract

The invention provides a wide-voltage SRAM time sequence tracking circuit, and belongs to the technical field of application-specific integrated circuit design. A discharge switching module and a configurable SRAM sequential logic module are adopted to realize discharge switching operation with sequential tracking capability, a copy word line is enabled in turn to control a copy bit line to discharge in turn, so that a periodic clock pulse signal is generated, and the period of the signal is the delay sum of discharge of the copy bit line. According to the wide-voltage SRAM time sequence tracking circuit provided by the invention, the enabling delay change of the sensitive amplifier SAE is effectively reduced, and the process deviation resistance of the circuit is improved; the discharge switching module dynamically adjusts the word line voltage of the replication unit, so that the process deviation resistance of the circuit is further improved; and the discharge switching module can detect a constant discharge threshold voltage, and the voltage tracking performance of the circuit is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of special integrated circuit design, and in particular relates to a wide voltage SRAM time sequence tracking circuit. Background technique [0002] With the advent of the mobile Internet era, the market has put forward higher and higher requirements for the processing power and battery life of mobile devices. Embedded Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) is one of the mainstream memories of mobile processor chips. In order to achieve the two design goals of high performance and low power consumption, the design of wide voltage SRAM down to the near-threshold region has gradually become the industry standard. Research hotspots. Timing tracking circuit is one of the key modules of embedded SRAM, which determines the performance and stability of SRAM. However, the ever-decreasing operating voltage and shrinking process nodes have brought great process variation, making the design of wide-voltage SRAM timing tr...

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IPC IPC(8): G11C11/412G11C11/417
CPCG11C11/412G11C11/417
Inventor 王镇顾东志杨亮亮
Owner NANJING PROCHIP ELECTRONIC TECH CO LTD
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