Title :
Dual loop hardened latch circuit for low power application
Author :
Sriram, Sandeep ; Nan, Haiqing ; Choi, Ken
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. &, Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
As technology is scaling down, circuit reliability issues are major concerns because digital circuits are more susceptible to external noise sources. Soft Error is one such source which changes the voltage of internal nodes of the circuit. Hence it is necessary to design soft error (SE) immune digital circuits. In this paper, we proposed a novel SE immune latch circuit which operates at 0.5V using 32 nm technology node. Compared to previous hardened latches up to date, the proposed latch circuit completely immunes to SE on any node of the circuit with 26% total delay reduction.
Keywords :
circuit reliability; digital circuits; flip-flops; low-power electronics; circuit reliability; dual loop hardened latch circuit; low power application; size 32 nm; soft error immune digital circuit; soft error immune latch circuit; voltage 0.5 V; Delay; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit reliability; Inverters; Latches; Transistors; CMOS; Hardening; Latch; Soft-Error;
Conference_Titel :
SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2010 International
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8633-5
DOI :
10.1109/SOCDC.2010.5682958