Design of Radiation Hardened 12T SRAM with Enhanced Reliability and Read/Write Latency for Space Application

Abstract

Soft Errors becoming more predominant due to the constant scaling down of the transistors which lead to a decrease in the critical charge (Qc) and noise margin of the memory cell. In this paper, radiation-hardened (RH) 12T Memory cell is proposed which is resilient to soft errors as well as improves the critical read and write access time. This memory cell exhibits better results in terms of critical charge Qc with improved write static noise margin (WSNM). The extensive Monte Carlo simulations in Industry Hardware Calibrated 65nm standard CMOS process demonstrates that the proposed cell achieves improved performance with respect to 0.70× read access time, 0.69× write access time, 4.57× WSNM, 1.07× Qc as compared to NQ-10T at a supply voltage of 1V. Qc of the proposed RH-12T outperforms 6T SRAM & Q-10T by 1.91× and 1.62× respectively. In terms of area comparison, the silicon area is 1× for both NQ-10T and the proposed 12T. © 2023 IEEE.