Title :
Convolution/deconvolution SRAM analyses for complex gamma mixtures RTN distributions
Author :
Somha, Worawit ; Yamauchi, Hiroyuki
Author_Institution :
Inf.-Intell. Syst., Fukuoka Inst. of Technol., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
This paper discusses, for the first time, how the statistical SRAM design analyses should be changed when: (1) the time-dependent (TD) voltage margin variations (MV) after the screening test will dominate the overall behavior of the MV variations and (2) the shapes of the MV distribution will change from the Gaussian to the complex mixtures of Gamma distributions. We discuss on the SRAM TD-MV analyses with not only the forward problem but also the inverse problem, i.e., deconvolution analyses. The proposed algorithm for the deconvolution to circumvent the issues caused by a high-pass filtering behavior is discussed. The results given by the proposed convolution /deconvolution design analyses have shown that the followings have been enabled: (1) to figure out the unknown truncating point (TP) based on the overall final MV distributions as a reverse-engineering, (2) to decide the aimed TP/RDF/RTN required to achieve a target specs, and (3) to work out the required MV-shift-amount by the assisted circuit schemes to avoid any out of specs in the market during the life-time.
Keywords :
Gaussian distribution; SRAM chips; gamma distribution; statistical analysis; MV distribution; SRAM TD-MV analysis; complex gamma mixtures RTN distribution; deconvolution SRAM analysis; gamma distribution; high-pass filtering behavior; inverse problem; reverse-engineering; statistical SRAM design analysis; time-dependent voltage margin variation; truncating point; CMOS integrated circuits; Convolution; Deconvolution; Filtering; Random access memory; Resource description framework; Deconvolution; Gamma Mixtures; Long-tail distribution; Random telegraph noise; SRAM;
Conference_Titel :
IC Design & Technology (ICICDT), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pavia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4740-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4741-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICICDT.2013.6563297