ECE 6465 Memory Device Technologies and Applications
Previously (8823/8803) Offering: Fall 2018, Fall 2019 (Lecture Videos available at YouTube Link) and Fall 2021 (Lecture Videos available at YouTube Link). Next offering is Fall 2024.
Recommended textbook: S. Yu, Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits, Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2022. [Link]
Course Outline
- Semiconductor Memory and CMOS Scaling Overview
–Industry trend and technology scaling
- SRAM
–6T cell operation
–Noise margin, stability, scaling issues, and layout
–Variability and reliability issues
–Recent trends: FinFET
- DRAM
–1T-1C cell operation
–Fabrication technology, capacitor structure, and layout
–Recent trends: 3D TSV based HBM
–Embedded DRAM
- FLASH memory
–FLASH device physics
–NAND vs. NOR architecture
–Reliability and scaling issues
–Recent trends: 3D vertical NAND
- Emerging memories
–Cross-point array architecture (3D X-point)
–RRAM
–PCM
–STT-MRAM/SOT-MRAM
–FeFET/FeRAM
- Memory Array Design
–Peripheral circuits
–Sense amplifier design
–NVSim simulator
- New applications
–Non-volatile cache
–Reconfigurable logic
–PUF as hardware security primitive
–In-memory computing for deep learning
ECE 3030 Physical Foundations of Computer Engineering
Offering: Summer 2019, Spring 2020 (Lecture Videos available at YouTube Link), Fall 2020 (Lecture Videos available at YouTube Link), Spring 2022 and Spring 2023
Course Outline
- Resistors and Interconnects
- Semiconductor Physics
–From bond model to band model
–Carrier statistics (electrons and holes)
–Carrier transport (drift and diffusion)
- Transistor- MOSFET
–p/n junction, I-V, band diagram
–MOS-Cap, Electrostatics, band diagram perpendicular to channel
–Id-Vd and Id-Vg curves, band diagram along channel
–Subthreshold current and standby leakage
- CMOS Inverter
–Voltage transfer curve
–Noise margin
–Delay
–Power/Energy
- CMOS Scaling
- Memory Technologies
–SRAM
–DRAM
–FLASH
- Advanced CMOS Technologies