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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.
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Study of High Speed Main Amplifier and Low Power Peripheral Circuits for Low Supply Voltage Dynamic Random Access Memory

Chang, Yao-Sheng 09 July 2001 (has links)
Three high performance circuits for a low power supply DRAM¡¦s are presented in this thesis. First, a modified multi-stage sense amplifier is proposed, that utilizes the auxiliary transmission gate and charge recycling technique. The auxiliary NMOS transistor of the multi-stage sense amplifier is replaced by the transmission gate to improve the sensing speed. In addition, the charge recycling technique is used to reduce the power dissipation of multi-stage sense amplifier. It improves the sensing time by 6.1ns (24.4%) compared to that of the conventional multi-stage sense amplifier and the power saving percentage of 25.6% compared to that of the conventional one. Second, an improved Standby Power Reduction (SPR) Circuit is reported. The capacitor boosting technique is utilized in our proposed Static Current Cut-off Standby Power Reduction (SCCSPR) Circuit, which turns off the always-on MOS transistor of SPR circuit. The power consumption is 30.9% reduced by our design compared to that of the conventional SPR circuit. Third, an improved voltage doubler is developed. The indirect switch is utilized in our proposed circuit, it provides larger gate source bias applied to the PMOS pass transistor. Thus, the current drivability is arisen and the pumping speed is improved as well. In the 2V supply voltage, the pumping speed of our modified voltage doubler is arisen about 18.6% compared to that of the conventional voltage doubler. These high performance circuits in this thesis are applied in a 1-Kbit DRAM circuits. A data access time of 36ns and total power consumption 52.58mW are attained when the supply voltage is 2V. The access time of 10.3ns (22.2%) and power consumption of 6.44mW (11%) are reduced compared to that of the conventional DRAM.

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