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8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
A New Simulation Method for NBTI Analysis in SPICE Environment
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
Rakesh Vattikonda, Arizona State University, USA
Yansheng Luo, Synopsys Inc, USA
Alex Gyure, Synopsys Inc, USA
Xiaoning Qi, Synopsys Inc, USA
Sam Lo, Synopsys Inc, USA
Mahmoud Shahram, Synopsys Inc, USA
Yu Cao, Arizona State University, USA
Kishore Singhal, Synopsys Inc, USA
Dino Toffolon, Synopsys Inc, USA
This paper presents a simulation framework for reliability analysis of circuits in the SPICE environment. The framework incorporates the degradation of physical parameters such as threshold voltage (Vtp) into circuit simulation and enables the design of highly reliable circuits. The parameter degradation is based on the numerical solution for the reaction-diffusion (R-D) mechanism, which is a general model applicable to various reliability effects such as NBTI, HCI, NCS, and SEE. In particular, the accuracy and efficiency of this method was verified for NBTI degradation with 130nm experimental and simulation data over a wide range of stress voltages and temperature. The model also accurately captures the dependence of NBTI on multiple diffusion species (H/H2,), key process (Vth, tox) and environmental parameters (VDD, temperature). The circuit level performance of this method is verified with silicon data from ring-oscillator circuit. We also investigated the predicted impact of NBTI on representative digital circuits.
Citation:
Rakesh Vattikonda, Yansheng Luo, Alex Gyure, Xiaoning Qi, Sam Lo, Mahmoud Shahram, Yu Cao, Kishore Singhal, Dino Toffolon, "A New Simulation Method for NBTI Analysis in SPICE Environment," isqed, pp.41-46, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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