In this paper, a new single-port five-transistor (5T) Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell and associated read/write assist circuitries is proposed. Amongst them, a voltage level conversion circuit is to provide a voltage of the respective connected word line to be lower than or equal to a power supply voltage VDD such that the read/write-ability of the cell can be improved. Furthermore, a v...

The present study deals with a robot safety system composed of standby robot units and inbuilt safety unit. When the main operative unit fails, it is replaced by the standby robot unit available in the system. The concept of reboot delay is also incorporated in this study according to which the robot unit is rebooted if it is not successfully recovered. The recovery and reboot times of failed u...

A current sensing device, namely Hall Effect MOSFET (HEMOS) is proposed. It is experimentally shown that the HEMOS enables a non-contacting, and non-disturbing current measurement, which can be used for IDDQ testing of internal circuit blocks. The HEMOS can be manufactured and integrated in a VLSI with the conventional CMOS process. The HEMOS is also helpful to establish the low standby current...

Leakage current minimization is an important topic for event driven applications that spend most of their times in standby mode. Power gating technique is one of the most effective ways to reduce the standby leakage current. However, when power gating technique is applied to a functional unit, there exists a delay-power tradeoff, which can be characterized with the widths of sleep transistors. ...

In this paper, a coherent system consisting of non-identical dependent active components and equipped with non-identical dependent standby components is considered. The main object of this study is the random quantity which account the number of surviving standby components when the system is failed. We represent the distribution function of the corresponding random variable in terms of system ...

Automated home applications are to ease the use of technology and devices around the house. Most of the electronic devices, like shutters or entertainment products (Hifi, TV and even WiFi), are constantly in a standby mode, where they consume a considerable amount of energy. The standby mode is necessary to react to commands triggered by the user, but the time the device spends in a standby mod...

In practice, at many instances, it is important to maintain the failure-free performance of components in a standby system, as each sudden failure an operating component can result e.g., due imperfect or/and ‘non-instantaneous’ switching on and related adverse effects. Therefore, scheduled preventive switching/replacement that be executed without these consequences one effective methods for inc...

In this paper, a novel single-port five-transistor (5T) Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell and associated read/write assist are proposed. Amongst them, a word line suppression circuit is to provide a voltage of the respective connected word line to be lower than or equal to the power supply voltage VDD, so that the read/write-ability of the cell can be improved, and the half-selected cells...

In this paper we study the multiple systems of repair problem and present N-system with one working and the other systems are in repair, in standby or waiting repair. When the working system can fails it goes to repair and instantaneously a standby system becomes the working one. Standby system stands to system when the original system is on under repair. The systems are repair following the ar...