Silicon millimeter-wave radio circuits at 60-100 GHz (invited)
B. Floyd, U. Pfeiffer, et al.
SiRF 2007
This paper presents a pulsed sensing scheme with a limited BitLine swing designed for 4-Mb CMOS high-speed DRAM’s (HSDRAM’s) and beyond. It uses a standard CMOS cross-coupled sense amplifier and limits the swing by means of a pulsed sense clock. The signal loss that would occur if the bitline swing was not exactly limited to one threshold above the word-line’s low level is avoided by using a small reference voltage generator and trench decoupling capacitors. The new sensing scheme was successfully implemented on an experimental HSDRAM fabricated by using 0.7-μ LCMOS technology, and thus a high-speed random access time of 15 ns and a low power dissipation of 144 mW were obtained for 512-kb array activation with a fast cycle time of 60 ns at 3.6 V. © 1992 IEEE
B. Floyd, U. Pfeiffer, et al.
SiRF 2007
R.L. Franch, S. Dhong, et al.
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
S. Dhong, W.H. Henkels, et al.
VLSI Circuits 1989
S. Dhong, W.H. Henkels, et al.
VLSI Circuits 1989