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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2007.11.12.2366

A design on low-power and small-area EEPROM for UHF RFID tag chips  

Baek, Seung-Myun (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Lee, Jae-Hyung (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Song, Sung-Young (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Kim, Jong-Hee (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Park, Mu-Hun (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Ha, Pan-Bong (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Kim, Young-Hee (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Abstract
In this paper, a low-power and small-area asynchronous 1 kilobit EEPROM for passive UHF RFID tag chips is designed with $0.18{\mu}m$ EEPROM cells. As small area solutions, command and address buffers are removed since we design asynchronous I/O interface and data output buffer is also removed by using separate I/O. To supply stably high voltages VPP and VPPL used in the cell array from low voltage VDD, Dickson charge pump is designed with schottky diodes instead of a PN junction diodes. On that account, we can decrease the number of stages of the charge pump, which can decrease layout area of charge pump. As a low-power solution, we can reduce write current by using the proposed VPPL power switching circuit which selects each needed voltage at either program or write mode. A test chip of asynchronous 1 kilobit EEPROM is fabricated, and its layout area is $554.8{\times}306.9{\mu}m2$., 11% smaller than its synchronous counterpart.
Keywords
RFID; EEPROM; Low-power; Small-area; Schottky diode; Dickson charge pump;
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