Aging analysis at gate and macro cell level

  • Authors:
  • Dominik Lorenz;Martin Barke;Ulf Schlichtmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany;Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany;Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Aging, which can be regarded as a time-dependent variability, has until recently not received much attention in the field of electronic design automation. This is changing because increasing reliability costs threaten the continued scaling of ICs. We investigate the impact of aging effects on single combinatorial gates and present methods that help to reduce the reliability costs by accurately analyzing the performance degradation of aged circuits at gate and macro cell level.