• DocumentCode
    3031899
  • Title

    Impact of process variability on the radiation-induced soft error of nanometer-scale srams in hold and read conditions

  • Author

    Griffoni, Alessio ; Zuber, Paul ; Dobrovolny, Petr ; Roussel, Philippe J. ; Linten, Dimitri ; Alles, Michael L. ; Schrimpf, Ronald D. ; Reed, Robert A. ; Massengill, Lloyd W. ; Kobayashi, Daisuke ; Simoen, Eddy ; Groeseneken, Guido

  • Author_Institution
    Interuniv. Microelectron. Centre (imec), Leuven, Belgium
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    195
  • Lastpage
    201
  • Abstract
    Process variation affects the soft-error sensitivity of SRAM cells. A complex dependence on the arrival time of the particle strike relative to the word-line clock is observed.
  • Keywords
    SRAM chips; radiation hardening (electronics); arrival time; hold and read conditions; nanometer-scale SRAM; particle strike; process variability; radiation-induced soft error; soft-error sensitivity; word-line clock; Clocks; Computational modeling; Histograms; MOSFET circuits; Monte Carlo methods; Random access memory; Transistors; CMOS; SRAMs; Single Event Effect (SEE); Single Event Upset (SEU); process variability; soft error;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2011 12th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sevilla
  • ISSN
    0379-6566
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0585-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RADECS.2011.6131303
  • Filename
    6131303