Invention Grant
US08036023B2 Single-event upset immune static random access memory cell circuit
有权
单事件扰乱免疫静态随机存取存储器单元电路
- Patent Title: Single-event upset immune static random access memory cell circuit
- Patent Title (中): 单事件扰乱免疫静态随机存取存储器单元电路
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Application No.: US12899802Application Date: 2010-10-07
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Publication No.: US08036023B2Publication Date: 2011-10-11
- Inventor: Reed K. Lawrence , Nadim F. Haddad
- Applicant: Reed K. Lawrence , Nadim F. Haddad
- Applicant Address: US NH Nashua
- Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- Current Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NH Nashua
- Agency: Graybeal Jackson Haley
- Agent Daniel J. Long
- Main IPC: G11C11/00
- IPC: G11C11/00

Abstract:
A circuit and method are provided in which a six-transistor (6-T) SRAM memory cell is hardened to single-event upsets by adding isolation-field effect transistors (“iso-fets”) connected between the reference voltage Vdd and the field-effect transistors (“fets”) respectively corresponding to first and second inverters of the memory cell. According to certain embodiments, the control gates of first and second P-iso-fets are respectively tied to the control gates of first and second pull-up P-fets. According to certain embodiments, first and second N-iso-fets are connected between the output nodes of the memory cell and the pull-down N-fets respectively corresponding to the first and second inverters. The control gates of the first and second N-iso-fets are respectively tied to the control gates of the first and second pull-down N-fets. Again according to certain embodiments, one or more of the iso-fets are physically removed from the proximity of other transistors which comprise the memory cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110026315A1 Single-Event Upset Immune Static Random Access Memory Cell Circuit, System, And Method Public/Granted day:2011-02-03
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