Due to global climate change, the effect of extreme weather on power systems has attracted
extensive attention. In the prior-art grid resilience studies, the hurricanes or wildfires are …

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) have emerged as a promising security primitive for
low-cost authentication and cryptographic key generation. However, PUF stability with …

This paper presents an integrated framework, together with control policies, for optimizing
dynamic control of self-tuning parameters of a digital system over its lifetime in the presence …

This paper analyzes aging effects on various design hierarchies of a sub-45nm commercial
processor running realistic applications. Dependencies of aging effects on switching-activity …

Today's mainstream electronic systems typically assume that transistors and interconnects
operate correctly over their useful lifetime. With enormous complexity and significantly …

Abstract Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF) have emerged as security primitives which
can generate high entropy, temper resilient bits for security applications. However, the …

Transistor aging results in circuit delay degradation over time, and is a growing concern for
future systems. On-line circuit failure prediction, together with on-line self-test, can overcome …

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 …

Performance degradation of integrated circuits due to aging effects, such as Negative Bias
Temperature Instability (NBTI), is becoming a great concern for current and future CMOS …

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 …