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
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