A 23-ns 1-Mb BiCMOS DRAM

G. Kitsukawa, Kazumasa Yanagisawa, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Kinoshita, T. Ohta, Tetsu Udagawa, Hitoshi Miwa, Hiroyuki Miyazawa, Y. Kawajiri, Y. Ouchi,

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 1990 · 39 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

A 1-Mb BiCMOS DRAM having a 23-ns access time is described. The DRAM uses a direct sensing technique and a nonaddress-multiplexing configuration. This technique combines the NMOS differential circuit on each pair of data lines with a common highly sensitive bipolar circuit. The resulting chip has been verified to have high-speed characteristics while maintaining a wide operating margin and a relatively small chip size of 62.2 mm/sup 2/, in spite of a 1.3- mu m lithography level.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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