As CMOS technology is scaled down toward the nanoscale regime, drastically growing leakage currents and variations in device characteristics are becoming two important design chall...
Abstract-- The operational characteristics of integrated circuits based on nanoscale semiconductor technology are expected to be increasingly affected by variations in the manufact...
—Time-dependent performance degradation due to transistor aging caused by mechanisms such as Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) is one o...