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一种新型抗SEU的SRAM单元结构设计

Design of a New SEU-tolerant SRAM Cell Structure

  • 摘要: 在加速器粒子物理实验中,基于专用集成电路(Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC)在读出电子学前端实现模拟信号调理、数字化等功能是一个发展趋势,但这也使得ASIC暴露在了高能粒子辐射环境中,而其中的静态随机存储器(Static Random-Access Memory, SRAM)容易受到辐射的影响产生单粒子翻转(Single Event Upset, SEU),从而使芯片工作异常。因此对ASIC中的SRAM进行抗辐照加固设计十分必要。本工作提出了一种基于施密特触发器结构的11管抗SEU SRAM存储单元,并在180 nm CMOS工艺下进行了电路的设计和仿真,仿真结果表明,与传统12管SRAM单元相比,抗单粒子翻转能力有明显增加,且功耗仅为12管单元的42%。

     

    Abstract: In accelerator particle physics experiments, it is a development trend to realize the functions of analog signal processing and digitization at the front end of readout electronics based on application specific integrated circuits(ASICs), but it also exposes ASICs in the radiation environment of high-energy particles, The static random access memory(SRAM) is vulnerable to radiation, resulting in single event upset(SEU), which makes the chip abnormal. Therefore, it is necessary to design radiation-hardened SRAM in those ASICs. In this paper, a SEU-tolerant SRAM memory cell with 11 transistors(11 T) based on Schmitt trigger is proposed. The circuit is designed and simulated in 180 nm CMOS process. The simulation results show that our proposed 11 T SRAM cells as compared with traditional 12 transistors(12 T) SRAM cell have considerably higher robustness against single-event multiple effects, and consumes only 42% power of the 12 T cell.

     

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