Title
Highly Reliable Reference Bitline Bias Designs for 64 Mb and 128 Mb Chain FeRAMs
Abstract
This paper presents highly reliable reference bitline bias designs for 64 Mb and 128 Mb chain FeRAM™. The hysteresis shape deformation of ferroelectric capacitor due to temperature variation causes cell signal level shifts of both “1” and “0” data. The reference bitline bias of 64 Mb chip is designed to keep intermediate value of “1” and “0” data at any operating temperatures from C to 85 C by introducing a modified band-gap reference circuit with 3 bit temperature coefficient trimmers and 6 bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) using laser fuses. The measured result shows the improvement of tail-to-tail cell signal windows by 22 mV. Moreover, a new reference bias circuit called the “elevator circuit” with 3 bit temperature coefficient trimmers using ferroelectric fuses installed in a 128 Mb chip compensates array operating voltage VAA fluctuation as well as temperature variation. The elevator circuit enables the temperature dependency control at low external VDD of 1.8 V. This improves cell signal window by 40 mV. The elevator circuit also varies reference bitline bias with array operating voltage VAA variation, resulting in improvement of cell signal windows by 44 mV in the range of 1.5 V 0.2 V VAA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/JSSC.2015.2405932
J. Solid-State Circuits
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ferroelectric capacitor,nonvolatile memory,reference voltage,feram,temperature,integrated circuit design,temperature measurement,hysteresis
Journal
50
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0018-9200
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryu Ogiwara1325.33
Daisaburo Takashima27826.66
Sumiko Doumae3325.67
Shinichiro Shiratake4468.34
Ryosuke Takizawa5233.63
Hidehiro Shiga64115.51