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7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'06)
System-Level SRAM Yield Enhancement
San Jose, California
March 27-March 29
ISBN: 0-7695-2523-7
Fadi J. Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine
Ahmed M. Eltawil, University of California, Irvine
Young-Hwan Park, University of California, Irvine
Rouwaida N. Kanj, IBM Austin Research Labs
Sani R. Nassif, IBM Austin Research Labs
It is well known that SRAM constitutes a large portion of modern integrated circuits, with 80% or more of the total transistors being dedicated to SRAM in a typical processor or SOC. Thus yield management of these SRAMs plays a crucial role in insuring design success. This paper demonstrates analysis techniques to model and improve the yield of SRAMs at the system level by proper accounting for the coupling between the algorithms targeted for an SOC and the performance, power, and yield of SRAMs used in implementing the algorithms. It is shown that coupling the algorithm and SRAM design phases provides significant advantages over independent optimization.
Citation:
Fadi J. Kurdahi, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Young-Hwan Park, Rouwaida N. Kanj, Sani R. Nassif, "System-Level SRAM Yield Enhancement," isqed, pp.179-184, 7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'06), 2006
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