DocumentCode
2051176
Title
Circuit failure prediction for robust system design in scaled CMOS
Author
Mitra, Subhasish
Author_Institution
Depts. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
fYear
2008
fDate
April 27 2008-May 1 2008
Firstpage
524
Lastpage
531
Abstract
The idea behind circuit failure prediction is to predict the occurrence of a circuit failure before errors actually appear in system data and states. This concept enables a sea change in robust system design by overcoming major reliability challenges such as circuit aging and early-life failures (infant mortality).
Keywords
integrated circuit reliability; integrated circuit testing; circuit aging; circuit failure prediction; early-life failures; infant mortality; robust system design; Aging; Built-in self-test; Costs; Error correction; Hardware; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic; Niobium compounds; Power system interconnection; Robustness;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reliability Physics Symposium, 2008. IRPS 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2049-0
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2050-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/RELPHY.2008.4558940
Filename
4558940
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