This paper explores performance and technology-scalability of STT-MRAMs exploiting double-barrier MTJs (DMTJs) as comparatively evaluated with respect to conventional solution based on single-barrier MTJs (SMTJs). The comparative study was carried out at different design abstraction levels: (i) a bitcell-Ievel analysis relying on the use of Verilog-A compact models, and (ii) an architecture-level analysis for various memory sizes. Overall, our simulation results point out that, thanks to the reduced switching currents, DMTJ-based STT-MRAMs allow reducing write latency of about 60% than their SMTJ-based counterparts. This is achieved while assuring lower energy consumption under both write (-40%) and read (-27%) accesses, at the cost of reduced sensing margins.
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Titolo: | Exploiting Double-Barrier MTJs for Energy-Efficient Nanoscaled STT-MRAMs |
Autori: | LANUZZA, Marco (Corresponding) |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2019 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11770/303200 |
ISBN: | 978-1-7281-1201-5 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |