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21st International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design 2008)
NBTI Degradation: A Problem or a Scare?
Hyderabad, India
January 04-January 08
ISBN: 0-7695-3083-4
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has been identified as a major and critical reliability issue for PMOS devices in nano-scale designs. It manifests as a negative threshold voltage shift, thereby degrading the performance of the PMOS devices over the lifetime of a circuit. In order to determine the quantitative impact of this phenomenon an accurate and tractable model is needed. In this paper we ex- plore a novel and practical methodology for modeling NBTI degradation at the logic level for digital circuits. Its major contributions include i) A SPICE level simulation to identify stress on PMOS devices under varying input conditions for various gate types and ii) a gate level simulation method- ology that is scalable and accurate for determining stress on large circuits. We validate the proposed logic level sim- ulation methodology by showing that it is accurate within 1% of the reference model. Contrary to many other papers in this area, our experimental results show that the overall delay degradation of large digital circuits due to NBTI is relatively small.
Citation:
Kewal K. Saluja, Shriram Vijayakumar, Warin Sootkaneung, Xaingning Yang, "NBTI Degradation: A Problem or a Scare?," vlsid, pp.137-142, 21st International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design 2008), 2008
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