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A Low Power PRAM using a Power-Dependant Data Inversion Scheme  

Yang, Byung-Do (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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Abstract
A low power PRAM using a power-dependant data inversion (PDI) scheme is proposed. The PRAM consumes large write power because large write currents are required during long time. Also, the power consumptions for storing #1# and #0# are different. The PDI circuit compares the power consumptions to store the original data and its inverted data, and then it stores the less power consuming data. Although the PDI scheme needs an additional inversion bit per data, the maximum and average powers of the PDI can be under 50% and 37.5% of the conventional write scheme, respectively. The average power for storing 8bit data is under 41%, due to the inversion bit. The 1K-bit PRAM chip with 128$\times$8bits was implemented with a 0.8${\mu}m$ CMOS technology with a 0.5${\mu}m$ GST cell.
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VLSI; memory; PRAM; low power; write;
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