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A Low Power ROM Using A Single Charge Sharing Capacitor and Hierarchical Bit Line  

Yang, Byung-Do (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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Abstract
This paper describes a low power ROM using single charge-sharing capacitor and hierarchical bit line (SCSC-ROM). The SCSC-ROM reduces the power consumption in bit lines. It lowers the swing voltage of bit lines to a very small voltage by using a charge-sharing technique with a single capacitor. It implements the capacitor with dummy bit lines to improve noise immunity and make easy to design. The hierarchical bit line further saves the power by reducing the capacitance in bit lines. The SCSC-ROM also reduces the power consumption in control unit and predecoder by using the hierarchical word line decoder. The simulation result shows that the SCSC-ROM with $4K{\times}32bits$consumes only 37% power of a conventional ROM. A SCSC-ROM chip is fabricated in a $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS process. It consumes 8.2mW at 240MHz with 2.5V.
Keywords
ROM; low power; charge-sharing; bit line; word line decoder;
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