Simulation and research on a 4T-cell based duplication redundancy SRAM for SEU radiation hardening

A novel 4T-cell based duplication redundancy SRAM is proposed for SEU radiation hardening applications. The memory cell is designed with a 65-nm low leakage process; the operation principle and the SEU radiation hardening mechanism are discussed in detail. The SEE characteristics and failure mechanism are also studied with a 3-D device simulator. The results show that the proposed SRAM structure exhibits high SEU hardening performance with a small cell size.