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 …

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 …

Multiple kernel tracking with SSD

GD Hager, M Dewan, CV Stewart - Proceedings of the 2004 …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kernel-based objective functions optimized using the mean shift algorithm have been
demonstrated as an effective means of tracking in video sequences. The resulting …

Parameter variation tolerance and error resiliency: New design paradigm for the nanoscale era

S Ghosh, K Roy - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variations in process parameters affect the operation of integrated circuits (ICs) and pose a
significant threat to the continued scaling of transistor dimensions. Such parameter …

Extratime: Modeling and analysis of wearout due to transistor aging at microarchitecture-level

F Oboril, MB Tahoori - IEEE/IFIP International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With shrinking feature sizes, transistor aging due to NBTI and HCI becomes a major
reliability challenge for microprocessors. These processes lead to increased gate delays …

Statistical reliability analysis under process variation and aging effects

Y Lu, L Shang, H Zhou, H Zhu, F Yang… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Circuit reliability is affected by various fabrication-time and run-time effects. Fabrication-
induced process variation has significant impact on circuit performance and reliability …

On-chip reliability monitors for measuring circuit degradation

J Keane, T Kim, X Wang, CH Kim - Microelectronics Reliability, 2010 - Elsevier
Front-end-of-line reliability issues such as Bias Temperature Instability (BTI), Hot Carrier
Injection (HCI), and Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown (TDDB) have become more …

On the efficacy of NBTI mitigation techniques

TB Chan, J Sartori, P Gupta… - 2011 Design, Automation …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become an important reliability issue in
modern semiconductor processes. Recent work has attempted to address NBTI-induced …

Fine-grained aging-induced delay prediction based on the monitoring of run-time stress

A Vijayan, A Koneru, S Kiamehr… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Run-time solutions based on online monitoring and adaptation are required for resilience in
nanoscale integrated circuits, as design-time solutions and guard bands are no longer …

Integral impact of BTI, PVT variation, and workload on SRAM sense amplifier

I Agbo, M Taouil, D Kraak, S Hamdioui… - … Transactions on Very …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The CMOS technology scaling faced over the past recent decades severe variability and
reliability challenges. One of the major reliability challenges is bias temperature instability …