Eleventh IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS'06)
Soft-Error Rate Testing of Deep-Submicron Integrated Circuits
Southampton, United Kingdom
May 21-May 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2566-0
Soft errors induced by radiation pose a major challenge for the reliability of complex chips processed in state-of-the-art technologies. This paper reviews soft-error rate (SER) characterization by realtime system-SER testing and by accelerated testing. Additionally, we present scaling trends, simulation approaches, and improvement techniques. Special attention is given to soft errors in combinational logic.