The purpose of this work is to explore how device operation parameters such as switching speed and power dissipation scale with voltage and temperature. We simulated a CMOS ring o...
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has the potential to become one of the main show-stoppers of circuit reliability in nanometer scale devices due to its deleterious ...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in PMOS transistors has become a significant reliability concern in present day digital circuit design. With continued scaling, th...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
3D stacked circuits reduce communication delay in multicore system-on-chips (SoCs) and enable heterogeneous integration of cores, memories, sensors, and RF devices. However, vertic...
Mohamed M. Sabry, Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, David Atie...
Device scaling such as reduced oxide thickness and high electric field has given rise to various reliability concerns. One such growing issue of concern is the degradation of PMOS...
Krishnan Ramakrishnan, S. Suresh, Narayanan Vijayk...