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\section{Further Design Ideas}
I discovered -- from other people in the class -- that an 8-column design was plausible.
Unfortunately, I was only convinced a day or so before the project was due, which did not give me
enough time to redesign my SRAM. I have seen students successfully using
the 8-column design by sharing \textsc{Wl} wires for each 'row', and using
the remaining 3 bits to enable and disable the write block. Since reading does
not change the cell value, this is a viable approach; all 8 columns would ``read''
(except during writing, in which 7 columns would read and 1 would write). As
long as a proper address selection mechanism is implemented into the read collector
circuit (which at present cannot handle concurrent reads), this would work just
fine, albeit at the expense of added power consumption (from draining and re-charging
7 extra wires). This design, combined with my idea of placing the write block
in the middle of the column, can lead to very short effective wire lengths. If
I was to approach this project again, that's what I would try.
\section{Acknowledgements}
Reed's aforementioned idea of sharing well contacts between adjacent cells
played a part in my design. Also, without the other students in the class
Discord, I would not have known to use the ``better'' wire model at all.
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