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OVONIC UNIFIED MEMORY
Pratik Rathod
8th Sem E.C.
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N Semiconductors form the fundamental building blocks of
the modern electronic world providing the brains and the memory of products all around us from washing machines to super computers.
Current memory technologies have a lot of limitations
One of the fundamental approaches to manage challenge is using new materials to build the next generation transistors.
The new memory technologies have got all the good attributes for an ideal memory.
INTRODUCTION
PRESENT MEMORY TECHNOLOGY SCENARIO
The current memory technologies have a lot of limitations.
DRAM-volatile & difficult to integrate
Flash slower writes & lesser num. of
write/erase cycles
RAM high cost & volatile
when needed to expand will allow expansion only two-
dimensional space. Hence area required will be increased.
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Many new memory technologies were introduced when it is understood that semiconductor memory technology has to be replaced, or updated by its successor since scaling with semiconductor memory reached its material limit.
So, next generation memories are trying tradeoffs between size and cost.
These make them good possibilities for development.
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EMERGING MEMORIES
‘Next Generation Memories” The fundamental idea of all these
technologies is the bistable nature possible for of the selected material.
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Next Generation Memories
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FeRAM Polymer Memory
Ovonic Unified Memory
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OUM – OVONIC UNIFIED MEMORY
Most Promising One. Material Used is called
CHALCOGENIED. The Group VI elements of the periodic
table. Refers to alloys containing at least one
of these elements such as the alloy of Germanium, Antimony, and Tellurium
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Phase change technology uses a thermally Activated, Rapid, Reversible change in the structure of the alloy to store data.
The two structural states are Amorphous State and Polycrystalline State.
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Resistive heating is used to change the phase of the chalcogenide material.
Amorphous State - by taking temp above melting point.(Tm)
Polycrystalline State - holding temp at a lower temp for slightly longer period of time.(Tx)
The time needed to program either state is = 400ns
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Once programmed, the memory state of the cell is determined by reading its resistance.
Expected to be impervious to ionizing radiation effects.
One billion Write cycles between these two States were demonstrated. Reading the state of the device is nondestructive and has no impact on device wear out
So it has Unlimited Read cycles.
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OUM ARCHITECTURE
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The base of the heater is connected to a diode.
Thermal insulators are also attached to the memory structure in order to avoid data lose due to destruction of material at high temperatures.
To write- heated past its melting point and then rapidly cooled to make it amorphous.
CMOS INTEGRATION
The initial goal of CMOS integration was to develop the processes necessary to connect the memory element to CMOS transistors and metal wiring, without degrading the operation of either memory elements or the transistors.
Access Device Test Chip (ADTC)
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NWe are placing the memory element above the CMOS transister and below 1st level metal.
CMOS INTEGRATION
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SThe voltage is applied to one of the two terminals of the chalcogenide resistor, and the access transistor (biased on) is between the other resistor terminal and ground.
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Figure shows the operation of a 1T1R memory, again with the access transistor biased on.
CIRCUIT DEMONSTRATION
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Vehicle. It contains memory with different architecture, circuit
and layout variation. Key goals of CTCV are
1. to make the read and write circuits robust wrt potential variations in cell electrical charecteristics.
2. to test the effect of the memory cell layout on performance.
3. to maximize the amount of useful data obtained that could later be used for product design
CIRCUIT DEMONSTRATION
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Single ended sense amplifier.
The differential amplifier.
Conservative Cell.
Aggressive Cells.
Process Monitoring.
TESTS & RESULTS
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S• no effect on measured CMOS transistor parametric •indicate full functionality of the 64 kbit memory arrays.•Companies working with Ovonic Unified memory have their ultimate goal to gather enough data to begin a product design targeting a 1–4 Mbit C-RAM device.
OUM uses a reversible structural phase change.· Small active storage medium.· Simple manufacturing process.· Simple planar device structure.· Low voltage single supply.· Reduced assembly and test costs.· Highly scalable- performance improves with scaling· Multistate are demonstrated.· High temperature resistance.· Easy integration with CMOS.· It makes no effect on measured CMOS transistor parametric.· Total dose response of the base technology is not affected
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