Aging mitigation in memory arrays using self-controlled bit-flip** technique

A Gebregiorgis, M Ebrahimi, S Kiamehr… - The 20th Asia and …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With CMOS technology downscaling into the nanometer regime, the reliability of SRAM
memories is threatened by accelerated transistor aging mechanisms such as Bias …

Aging benefits in nanometer CMOS designs

D Rossi, V Tenentes, S Yang… - … on Circuits and …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, we show that bias temperature instability (BTI) aging of MOS transistors,
together with its detrimental effect for circuit performance and lifetime, presents considerable …

Impact of bias temperature instability on soft error susceptibility

D Rossi, M Omaña, C Metra… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the issue of analyzing the effects of aging mechanisms on ICs' soft
error (SE) susceptibility. In particular, we consider bias temperature instability (BTI), namely …

CASSER: A closed-form analysis framework for statistical soft error rate

ACC Chang, RHM Huang… - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CMOS designs in the deep submicrometer era require statistical methods to accurately
estimate the circuit soft error rate (SER). However, process variation increases the …

Reliable power gating with NBTI aging benefits

D Rossi, V Tenentes, S Yang… - … Transactions on Very …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we show that negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) aging of sleep
transistors (STs), together with its detrimental effect for circuit performance and lifetime (LT) …

Design, use and evaluation of p-fsefi: A parallel soft error fault injection framework for emulating soft errors in parallel applications

Q Guan, N BeBardeleben, P Wu, S Eidenbenz… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Future exascale application programmers and users have a need to quantity an
application's resilience and vulnerability to soft errors before running their codes on …

A fault-tolerant design strategy utilizing approximate computing

P Balasubramanian, DL Maskell - 2023 IEEE Region 10 …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel Fault-tolerant design ie, redundancy strategy based on
Approximate Computing, which we call FAC. Conventionally, triple modular redundancy …

Analysis of Redundancy Techniques for Electronics Design—Case Study of Digital Image Processing

P Balasubramanian - Technologies, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Electronic circuits/systems operating in harsh environments such as space are likely to
experience faults or failures due to the impact of high-energy radiation. Given this, to …

Soft error rate estimation of combinational circuits based on vulnerability analysis

M Raji, H Pedram, B Ghavami - IET Computers & Digital …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nanometer integrated circuits are getting increasingly vulnerable to soft errors and making
the soft error rate (SER) estimation an important challenge. In this study, a novel approach is …

Impact of aging phenomena on latches' robustness

M Omana, D Rossi, TS Edara… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the effects of aging mechanisms on the soft error susceptibility of
both standard and robust latches. Particularly, we consider bias temperature instability (BTI) …