• DocumentCode
    961486
  • Title

    Statistical Leakage Estimation of Double Gate FinFET Devices Considering the Width Quantization Property

  • Author

    Gu, Jie ; Keane, John ; Sapatnekar, Sachin ; Kim, Chris H.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    206
  • Lastpage
    209
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a statistical leakage estimation method for FinFET devices considering the unique width quantization property. Monte Carlo simulations show that the conventional approach underestimates the average leakage current of FinFET devices by as much as 43% while the proposed approach gives a precise estimation with an error less than 5%. Design example on subthreshold circuits shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; Monte Carlo methods; estimation theory; leakage currents; Monte Carlo simulations; double gate FinFET devices; statistical leakage estimation; width quantization property; Energy consumption; Estimation error; FinFETs; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit technology; Leakage current; Nanoscale devices; Power system modeling; Quantization; Very large scale integration; Circuit modeling; integrated circuit (IC) design; leakage currents;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1063-8210
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TVLSI.2007.909809
  • Filename
    4374121