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An efficient replica bitline (RBL) technique for reducing the variation of sense amplifier enable (SAE) timing is proposed. Both RBLs and four-fold replica cells compared with the conventional RBL technique are utilised to favour the desired operations. Simulation results show that the standard deviation of SAE can be suppressed by 44.25% and the cycle time is also reduced by ∼30% at a 0.8 V supply voltage in TSMC 65 nm technology. Additionally, the area of the proposed scheme is nearly the same as that of the conventional RBL scheme.
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