
Current delivery is a major challenge in chip design. Reduction of the nominal voltage due to technology scaling has worsened the problem. Voltage stacking has been proposed as a way to alleviate the problem by delivering power in a serial rather than the conventional parallel way. Several studies have proposed techniques to stack logic designs. This paper applies the voltage stacking technique to SRAMs. By dividing the SRAM into two logic domains, we are able to double the supply voltage VDD while reducing the current draw significantly. Since SRAMs have a predictable activity pattern, each stack consumes the same amount of power, therefore, the stack voltage 2VDD will distribute evenly between the stacks and the current demand will decrease up to 44%. The combined effects of increasing VDD and decreasing current allow the design of Voltage Regulators to be 10%–15% more efficient.
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