The Effects of Alpha Particles on the Sense Amplifier in Memory Devices

알파 입자가 기억 소자의 SENSE AMP.에 미치는 영향

  • 이성규 (서울대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 한민구 (서울대학교 전기공학과)
  • Published : 1988.11.25

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of alpha particles on the memory circuits such as a sense amplifier and bit lines. Sense amplifiers column alpha particle hits have been simulated for a mega bit DRAM using SPICE, a circuit simulation program. The energy of alpha particle and the substrate concentration are found to strongly influence the likehood of soft errors. Our results may be useful for the designing of alpha particle immune sense amplifiers.

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