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By taking advantage of both low computational cost and close agreement results of the developed models, in this thesis we were able to propose a non-traditional sizing procedure for the simple 6T-SRAM cell, that unlike the traditional thin-cell design, transistor lengths are used as a design variable in order to reduce the static leakage. The single-P-well (SPW) structure in combination with reverse-body-biasing (RBB) technique were used to achieve a better balance between P-type and N-type transistors. As a result, we developed a 128 kB SRAM cache, whose post-layout simulations show that the circuit consumes an average energy per operation of 0.604 pJ/word-access (64 I/O bits) at supply voltage of 0.45 V and operation frequency of 40 MHz. 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