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ISQED
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Simulating and Improving Microelectronic Device Reliability by Scaling Voltage and Temperature
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...
Xiaojun Li, Joerg D. Walter, Joseph B. Bernstein
ISQED
2006
IEEE
259views Hardware» more  ISQED 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Impact of NBTI on SRAM Read Stability and Design for Reliability
— 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...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
146views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
An analytical model for negative bias temperature instability
— 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...
ICCAD
2010
IEEE
145views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Fuzzy control for enforcing energy efficiency in high-performance 3D systems
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...
VLSID
2007
IEEE
130views VLSI» more  VLSID 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Impact of NBTI on FPGAs
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...