• DocumentCode
    2012195
  • Title

    A design-for-reliability approach based on grading library cells for aging effects

  • Author

    Arasu, S. ; Nourani, M. ; Carulli, John M. ; Butler, Kenneth M. ; Reddy, Veerababu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    6-13 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    A realistic, as opposed to fixed pessimistic end-of-life method to identify paths that are at-risk to excessive degradation due to aging is presented. It uses library cell grading information to assess the cells/instances for their sensitivity to parametric degradation.
  • Keywords
    ageing; integrated circuit reliability; logic design; logic gates; aging effects; cell gate reliability characterization; design-for-reliability approach; fixed pessimistic end-of-life method; grading library cells; library cell grading information; parametric degradation; Abstracts; Libraries; Logic gates; Reliability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Test Conference (ITC), 2013 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • ISSN
    1089-3539
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TEST.2013.6651923
  • Filename
    6651923