Title
A 16-GB 640-GB/s HBM2E DRAM With a Data-Bus Window Extension Technique and a Synergetic On-Die ECC Scheme
Abstract
Circuit and design techniques are presented for enhancing the performance and reliability of a 3-D-stacked high bandwidth memory-2 extension (HBM2E). A data-bus window extension technique is implemented to cope with reduced clock cycle time ranging from data-path architecture, through-silicon via (TSV) placement, and TSV-PHY alignment. A power TSV placement in the middle of array and at the chip edge along with a dedicated top metal for power mesh improves power IR drop by 62%. An on-die ECC (OD-ECC) scheme featuring a self-scrubbing function is designed to be orthogonal to system ECC. An uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER) is improved by 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">5</sup> times with the proposed OD-ECC and scrubbing scheme. A memory built-in self-test (MBIST) block supports low-frequency cell and core test in a parallel manner and all channel at-speed operation with adjustable ac parameters. The proposed parallel-bit MBIST reduces test time by 66%. A 16-GB HBM2E fabricated in the second generation of 10-nm class DRAM process achieves a bandwidth up to 640 GB/s (5 Gb/s/pin) and provides a stable bit-cell operation at a high temperature (e.g., 105 ° C).
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/JSSC.2020.3027360
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Keywords
DocType
Volume
3-D-stacked memory,built-in self-test (BIST),data bus,high bandwidth memory (HBM),on-die ECC (OD-ECC),power delivery network (PDN),through-silicon via (TSV)
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0018-9200
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
6
26
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ki Chul Chun110.37
Yong Ki Kim210.37
Yesin Ryu321.55
Jaewon Park411.73
Chi Sung Oh5938.94
Young Yong Byun610.37
Soyoung Kim716822.15
Dong Hak Shin810.37
Jun Gyu Lee910.37
Byung-Kyu Ho1010.37
Sang-Min Park1122321.45
Seong Jin Cho1263.28
Seunghan Woo1310.37
Byoung Mo Moon1410.71
Beomyong Kil1510.37
Sungoh Ahn1611.05
Jae Hoon Lee1717637.92
Sooyoung Kim1822538.24
Seouk-Kyu Choi1910.71
Jae-Seung Jeong2010.37
Sung-Gi Ahn2110.37
Jihye Kim2210.37
Jun Jin Kong2310.37
Kyomin Sohn2410.71
Nam Sung Kim253268225.99
Jung-Bae Lee2610.71