• DocumentCode
    1975662
  • Title

    Dual loop hardened latch circuit for low power application

  • Author

    Sriram, Sandeep ; Nan, Haiqing ; Choi, Ken

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. &, Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    22-23 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    123
  • Lastpage
    126
  • Abstract
    As technology is scaling down, circuit reliability issues are major concerns because digital circuits are more susceptible to external noise sources. Soft Error is one such source which changes the voltage of internal nodes of the circuit. Hence it is necessary to design soft error (SE) immune digital circuits. In this paper, we proposed a novel SE immune latch circuit which operates at 0.5V using 32 nm technology node. Compared to previous hardened latches up to date, the proposed latch circuit completely immunes to SE on any node of the circuit with 26% total delay reduction.
  • Keywords
    circuit reliability; digital circuits; flip-flops; low-power electronics; circuit reliability; dual loop hardened latch circuit; low power application; size 32 nm; soft error immune digital circuit; soft error immune latch circuit; voltage 0.5 V; Delay; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit reliability; Inverters; Latches; Transistors; CMOS; Hardening; Latch; Soft-Error;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2010 International
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8633-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SOCDC.2010.5682958
  • Filename
    5682958