In this paper, a novel technique to reduce the leakage current of FinFET forced stacks under a given delay constraint is presented. This technique takes advantage of the unique feature of four-terminal FinFETs allowing different transistors to have separately tunable back bias voltages. In this work, a reverse back bias voltage is applied to one of the two stacked transistors to reduce its leakage at the cost of a delay penalty, whereas a forward back bias voltage is applied to the other one to compensate this delay degradation. The technique is assessed by means of mixed device-circuit simulations for FinFETs that are representative of 40- and 27-nm technology generations. Results show that a leakage reduction by up to 50 can be achieved as compared with traditional transistor stacks, while keeping same speed, dynamic energy, and sensitivity to process/voltage/temperature variations.
Mixed FBB/RBB: A Novel Low-Leakage Technique for FinFET Forced Stacks
ESSENI, David;
2012-01-01
Abstract
In this paper, a novel technique to reduce the leakage current of FinFET forced stacks under a given delay constraint is presented. This technique takes advantage of the unique feature of four-terminal FinFETs allowing different transistors to have separately tunable back bias voltages. In this work, a reverse back bias voltage is applied to one of the two stacked transistors to reduce its leakage at the cost of a delay penalty, whereas a forward back bias voltage is applied to the other one to compensate this delay degradation. The technique is assessed by means of mixed device-circuit simulations for FinFETs that are representative of 40- and 27-nm technology generations. Results show that a leakage reduction by up to 50 can be achieved as compared with traditional transistor stacks, while keeping same speed, dynamic energy, and sensitivity to process/voltage/temperature variations.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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