• DocumentCode
    2857051
  • Title

    Aging analysis of circuit timing considering NBTI and HCI

  • Author

    Lorenz, Dominik ; Georgakos, Georg ; Schlichtmann, Ulf

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Electron. Design Autom., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    24-26 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    We present an aging analysis flow able to calculate the degraded circuit timing. To the best of our knowledge it is the first approach on gate level so far capable of analyzing the impact of the two dominant drift-related aging effects - NBTI and HCI - on complex digital circuits. The aging-aware gate model used to compute the aged circuit timing provides not just the cell delay degradation, but also the degradation of the output slope. To get more accurate results, the individual workload of a gate can be considered.
  • Keywords
    digital circuits; logic circuits; timing circuits; HCI; NBTI; aging analysis; aging-aware gate model; cell delay degradation; circuit timing; complex digital circuits; hot carrier injection; negative bias temperature instability; output slope degradation; Aging; Circuit analysis; Degradation; Delay; Human computer interaction; Niobium compounds; Safety; Threshold voltage; Timing; Titanium compounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    On-Line Testing Symposium, 2009. IOLTS 2009. 15th IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Sesimbra, Lisbon
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4596-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4595-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IOLTS.2009.5195975
  • Filename
    5195975