Circuit failure prediction and its application to transistor aging

M Agarwal, BC Paul, M Zhang… - 25th IEEE VLSI Test …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Circuit failure prediction predicts the occurrence of a circuit failure before errors actually
appear in system data and states. This is in contrast to classical error detection where a …

Predictive modeling of the NBTI effect for reliable design

S Bhardwaj, W Wang, R Vattikonda… - IEEE Custom …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a predictive model for the negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) of
PMOS under both short term and long term operation. Based on the reaction-diffusion (RD) …

An ultra-dense 2FeFET TCAM design based on a multi-domain FeFET model

X Yin, K Ni, D Reis, S Datta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) represent a form of logic-in-memory and
are currently widely used in routers, caches, and efficient machine learning models. From a …

Compact modeling and simulation of circuit reliability for 65-nm CMOS technology

W Wang, V Reddy, AT Krishnan… - … on Device and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) and channel hot carrier (CHC) are the leading
reliability concerns for nanoscale transistors. The de facto modeling method to analyze CHC …

The impact of NBTI effect on combinational circuit: Modeling, simulation, and analysis

W Wang, S Yang, S Bhardwaj… - … Transactions on Very …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Negative-bias-temperature instability (NBTI) has become the primary limiting factor of circuit
life time. In this paper, we develop a hierarchical framework for analyzing the impact of NBTI …

Reliable systems on unreliable fabrics

T Austin, V Bertacco, S Mahlke… - IEEE Design & Test of …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The continued scaling of silicon fabrication technology has led to significant reliability
concerns, which are quickly becoming a dominant design challenge. Design integrity is …

Silicon odometer: An on-chip reliability monitor for measuring frequency degradation of digital circuits

TH Kim, R Persaud, CH Kim - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise measurement of digital circuit degradation is a key aspect of aging tolerant digital
circuit design. In this study, we present a fully digital on-chip reliability monitor for high …

Facelift: Hiding and slowing down aging in multicores

A Tiwari, J Torrellas - 2008 41st IEEE/ACM International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Processors progressively age during their service life due to normal workload activity. Such
aging results in gradually slower circuits. Anticipating this fact, designers add timing …

Computing in memory with FeFETs

D Reis, M Niemier, XS Hu - … of the international symposium on low power …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Data transfer between a processor and memory frequently represents a bottleneck with
respect to improving application-level performance. Computing in memory (CiM), where …

Ferroelectric FETs-based nonvolatile logic-in-memory circuits

X Yin, X Chen, M Niemier, XS Hu - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Among the beyond-complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices being
explored, ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) are considered as one of the most …