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Variation Tolerant Differential 8T SRAM Cell for Ultralow Power Applications Abstract: Low power and noise tolerant static random access memory (SRAM) cells are in high demand today. This paper presents a stable differential SRAM cell that consumes low power. The proposed cell has similar structure to conventional 6T SRAM cell with the addition of two buffer transistors, one tail transistor and one complementary word line. Due to stacking effect, the proposed cell achieves lower power dissipation. In this paper, impact of process parameters variations on various design metrics of the proposed cell are presented and compared with conventional differential 6T (D6T), transmission gate-based 8T (TG8T), and single ended 8T (SE8T) SRAM cells. Impact of process variation, like threshold voltage and length, on different design metrics of an SRAM cell like, read static noise margin (RSNM), read access time (TRA), and write access time (TWA) are also presented. The proposed cell achieves 1.12×/1.43×/5.62× improvement in TRA compared to TG8T/D6T/SE8T at a penalty of 1.1×/4.88× in TWA compared to D6T/TG8T and 1.19×/1.18× in read/write power consumption compared to D6T. An improvement of 1.12×/2.15× in RSNM is observed compared to D6T/TG8T. The proposed cell consumes 5.38× less power during hold mode and also shows 2.33x narrower spread in hold power @ VDD = 0.4 V compared to D6T SRAM cell.