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Sinha et al., 2015 - Google Patents

Low-power 9T subthreshold SRAM cell with single-ended write scheme

Sinha et al., 2015

Document ID
13866282516892908667
Author
Sinha A
Kumar V
Islam A
Publication year
Publication venue
2015 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON)

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Demand for low power circuits is increasing and an easy way to meet low power requirement is to scale down the supply voltage. When the power supply is less than the threshold voltage of the transistors, the circuit is said to be operating in the subthreshold …
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