Reliability-enhancement and self-repair schemes for SRAMs with static and dynamic faults

Jin Fu Li, Tsu Wei Tseng, Chih Sheng Hou

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Abstract

This paper proposes a simple method for enhancing the reliability of static random access memories (SRAMs) with hard-to-detect resistive-open defects. The method prevents a SRAM from executing successive multiple read operations on the same position, such that the hard-to-detect defects cannot manifest as functional faults. This can prolong the lifetime of the SRAM with latent hard-to-detect defects. Experimental results show that the proposed reliability-enhancement circuit (REC) can effectively improve the reliability of the SRAMs without incurring delay penalty and with 0.07% additional area cost for an 8192 × 64-bit SRAM. By integrating the REC with the SRAM, a BISR scheme is proposed to boost 6%-10% increment of repair rate compared with the BISR without the REC. Also, the area cost of the BISR is lowonly about 2% for an 8192 × 64-bit SRAM.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5210133
Pages (from-to)1361-1366
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Volume18
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2010

Keywords

  • Random access memories
  • built-in self-repair
  • built-in self-test
  • dynamic faults
  • march test
  • reliability
  • static faults

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