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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Low-power hybrid TFET-CMOS memory

Gopinath, Anoop 02 April 2018 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Gopinath, Anoop. M.S.E.C.E., Purdue University, May 2018. Low-Power Hybrid TFET-CMOS Memory. Major Professor: Maher E. Rizkalla. The power consumption and the switching speed of the current CMOS technology have reached their limits. In contrast, architecture design within computer systems are continuously seeking more performance and e ciency. Advanced technologies that optimize the power consumption and switching speed may help deliver this e ciency. Indeed, beyond CMOS technology may be a viable approach to meeting the ever increasing need for low-power design. These technology includes devices such as Tunnel Field E ect Transistor (TFET), Graphene based devices such as GFET and GRNFET and FinFET. However, the low cross-sectional area of the channel asso- ciated with smaller technology nodes brings with it the challenges associated with leakage current below the threshold. Mitigating these challenges with devices such as TFETs may allow higher levels of integration, faster switching speed and lower power consumption. This thesis investigates the use of Gallium Nitride (GaN) TFET devices at 20nm for memory cells. These cells can be used in the L1 data cache of the Graphic Processing Units (GPU) thereby minimizing the static power and the dynamic power within these memory systems. The TFET technology was chosen since it has a low subthreshold slope of nearly 30mV/decade. This enables the TFET-based cells to function with a 0.6V supply voltage leading to reduced dynamic power consumption and leakage current when compared to the current CMOS technology. The results suggest that there are bene ts in pursuing an integrated TFET-based technology for Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design. These bene ts are demonstrated using simulation at the schematic-level using Cadence Virtuoso.

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