Conforming block inversion for low power memory

  • Authors:
  • You-Sung Chang;Chong-Min Kyung

  • Affiliations:
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon;Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a scheme for reducing the power consumption of memory components by conforming memory contents to a precharging value. The scheme is oriented to application to single bitline structure of memory. It selectively stores normal or inverted data to reduce the number of bit accesses that have different values from the precharging value, which reduces overall bitline toggling and ultimately contributes to power reduction of the memory.