EDN

Silicon7’s 8-Mbit SRAM sports single-transistor cell

TOKYO — Fabless startup Silicon7 Inc. said it has developed a one-transistor SRAM chip that can replace today's six-transistor SRAMs. The chip combines Silicon7's CompactCell SRAM (CCSRAM) technology ...
Design-Reuse

Renesas Technology Develops Technique that Overcomes Effects of Threshold Variation to Stabilize the Operation of Embedded SRAM built with 65nm Process

High yield achieved for the world's smallest level 6-transistor SRAM memory-cell area (0.494µm 2) ; stabilization technique addresses variability of transistor characteristics. Tokyo, June 15, 2006 −− ...
New Electronics

Ultra-scaled EUV-enabled surrounding gate transistor SRAM cell

Imec and Unisantis, a developer of Surrounding Gate Transistor (SGT) semiconductor technology, have revealed significant progress in the development of a process flow targeting an SGT 6T-SRAM cell ...
Design-Reuse

Renesas Technology Develops Promising Technology for Implementing On-Chip SOI SRAM of 32-Nanometer Generation and Beyond

Tokyo, June 12, 2007 −− Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of a technology that is effective in implementing SRAM in processes of the 32 nm (nanometer) generation and beyond, for ...
Ars Technica

4T SRAM, 6T SRAM, EDRAM, DRAM, and 1T-SRAM for CPUs

These are various forms of local, on-chip memory. Except for the DRAM. 4T (4 transistor) SRAM takes up 4 times the space that regular DRAM does 1T-SRAM seems to be a hybrid of DRAM that allows for ...
Electronic Design

Crolles2 Alliance reveals ultra-dense SRAM cell in 45 nm conventional bulk CMOS

The Crolles2 Alliance, which includes Freescale Semiconductor, Philips and STMicroelectronics, has created six-transistor SRAM-bit cells with an area of less than 0.25 square microns, or about half ...
Phys.org

IMEC reports record in tall triple-gate device SRAM cell for 45nm node

At today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, IMEC, Europe’s largest independent nanoeelctronics and nanotechnology research center, announced that it had achieved the ...
Electronics Weekly

Cypress acquires 'one transistor' SRAM firm

Cypress acquires ‘one transistor’ SRAM firmNews from ElectronicNews OnlineCypress Semiconductor today inked a deal to buy Cascade Semiconductor, a move that Cypress expects to add about $3m per ...
Electronics Weekly

IEDM: Deeply depleted channels run SRAM at 0.425V

Fujitsu has demonstrated SRAM blocks down running down to 0.425V, using a deeply depleted channel (DDC) transistor design from Californian start-up SuVolta. By replacing conventional mosfets with DDC ...
EDN

IBM researchers develop stable SRAM operating at 6 GHz

MANHASSET, N.Y. — At the VLSI Circuits Symposium held recently in Kyoto, Japan, IBM scientists revealed a prototype embedded SRAM chip set capable of reaching speeds beyond 6 GHz. Their accomplishment ...
CIOL

IEDM presentation on SRAM memory cell

MANHASSET: The 55th annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) of IEEE will be held at the Hilton Baltimore on December 7-9, 2009. About 215 papers are to be presented by researchers from ...