Synopses & Reviews
This book features various, ultra low energy, variability resilient SRAM circuit design techniques for wireless sensor network applications. Conventional SRAM design targets area efficiency and high performance at the increased cost of energy consumption, making it unsuitable for computation-intensive sensor node applications.
Synopsis
This reviews the most efficient circuit design techniques and trade-offs, and introduces new memory architecture techniques, sense amplifier circuits and voltage optimization methods for reducing the impact of variability in wireless sensor applications.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- SRAM Bit Cell Optimization.- Adaptive Voltage Optimization Techniques: Low Voltage SRAM Operation.- Circuit Techniques to Assist SRAM Cell: Local Assist Circuitry.- SRAM Energy Reduction Techniques.- Variation Tolerant Low Power Sense Amplifiers.- Prototypes.- Conclusions.