Design Techniques for a 30-ns Access Time 1.5-V 200-KB Embedded EEPROM Memory

A 200-KB embedded electrically erasable programmable READ-only memory (EEPROM), which operates with a single 1.5-V power supply voltage based on an HHGRACE (Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation) 90-nm EEPROM process, is developed. In this brief, several key design techniques are presented. An improved bit cell with a larger current sensing window is adopted in the split-source EEPROM array. To get high-speed READ operation, a high-performance sense amplifier and a dynamic sensing window tracking reference voltage generating circuit have been proposed. The die size of the proposed EEPROM IP is 1.271 mm
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, and the EEPROM cell size is 0.32 μm
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. Access time of 30 ns is achieved at 1.5 V and 25 °C.