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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2011.15.4.913

Design of Low-Area and Low-Power 1-kbit EEPROM  

Yu, Yi-Ning (창원대학교)
Yang, Hui-Ling (창원대학교)
Jin, Li-Yan (창원대학교)
Jang, Ji-Hye (창원대학교)
Ha, Pan-Bong (창원대학교)
Kim, Young-Hee (창원대학교)
Abstract
In this paper, a logic process based 1-kbit EEPROM IP for RFID tag chips of 900MHz is designed. The cell array of the designed 1-kbit EEPROM IP is arranged in a form of four blocks of 16 rows x 16 columns, that is in a two-dimensional arrangement of one-word EEPROM phantom cells. We can reduce the IP size by making four memory blocks share CG (control gate) and TG (tunnel gate) driver circuits. We propose a TG switch circuit to supply respective TG bias voltages according to operational modes and to keep voltages between devices within 5.5V in terms of reliability in order to share the TG driver circuit. Also, we can reduce the power consumption in the read mode by using a partial activation method to activate just one of four memory blocks. Furthermore, we can reduce the access time by making BL (bit line) switching times faster in the read mode from reduced number of cells connected to each column. We design and compare two 1-kbit EEPROM IPs, two blocks of 32 rows ${\times}$ 16 columns and four blocks of 16 rows ${\times}$ 16 columns, which use Tower's $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The four-block IP is smaller by 11.9% in the layout size and by 51% in the power consumption in the read mode than the two-block counterpart.
Keywords
RFID; Tag Chip; Logic EEPROM; Small-area; Low-power;
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