• DocumentCode
    2128115
  • Title

    Impact of cosmic ray neutron induced soft errors on advanced submicron CMOS circuits

  • Author

    Tosaka, Y. ; Satoh, S. ; Suzuki, Kenji ; Sugii, T. ; Ehara, H. ; Woffinden, G.A. ; Wender, S.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Atsugi, Japan
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    11-13 June 1996
  • Firstpage
    148
  • Lastpage
    149
  • Abstract
    We numerically studied the neutron effects on submicron CMOS SRAM and LATCH circuits using a developed simulator which agrees well with the experimental charge collection measurements. We showed that the neutron effects have influence on SEs in advanced integrated circuits, especially for LATCH. If the Pb-Sn solder or other materials with high /spl alpha/-particle emission rates are not included, the neutrons are main SE components in advanced integrated circuits.
  • Keywords
    CMOS logic circuits; CMOS memory circuits; SRAM chips; cosmic ray interactions; cosmic ray neutrons; errors; flip-flops; integrated circuit modelling; neutron effects; LATCH circuit; SRAM circuit; charge collection; cosmic ray neutron induced soft errors; integrated circuit; numerical simulation; submicron CMOS circuit; Charge measurement; Circuit simulation; Current measurement; Integrated circuit measurements; Latches; Neutrons; Random access memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Technology, 1996. Digest of Technical Papers. 1996 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3342-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSIT.1996.507828
  • Filename
    507828