DocumentCode :
3194009
Title :
Partitioning for Selective Flip-Flop Redundancy in Sequential Circuits
Author :
Alsaiari, Uthman ; Saleh, Resve
Author_Institution :
Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver
fYear :
2008
fDate :
17-19 March 2008
Firstpage :
798
Lastpage :
803
Abstract :
As the number of transistors on a chip begins to exceed 1 billion and their sensitivity to defects begins to degrade overall yield, it will be mandatory to assign a portion of the transistors for the purposes of built-in- self-test (BIST) and built-in-self-repair (BISR) as part of the supporting circuitry. Here, we focus on the self-test and self-repair of flip-flops (FF´s), and their associated interconnect, using spare FF´s to replace faulty ones. We describe our method to determine the number of spares based on delay and yield analysis. Using these results, we partition the flip-flops in a sequential design to improve the yield while keeping the delay and area overhead low. Next, we apply this redundancy approach only to non-critical paths in the circuit so that no timing penalty is incurred, and find that it can still provide significant improvement in the overall yield. A number of sequential benchmark circuits from ITC ´99 are compared with and without redundant flip-flops, and also with and without partitioning. The total area overhead of our method is 8% on average while improving the yield by 6-29% and incurring no timing penalty.
Keywords :
built-in self test; flip-flops; sequential circuits; transistor circuits; BISR; BIST; built-in- self-test; built-in-self-repair; selective flip-flop redundancy; sequential circuits; transistors chip; Application specific integrated circuits; Built-in self-test; Combinational circuits; Delay; Flip-flops; Integrated circuit yield; Logic design; Redundancy; Sequential circuits; Timing; Flip-Flop; Partitioning; Redundancy; Yield;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Quality Electronic Design, 2008. ISQED 2008. 9th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3117-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ISQED.2008.4479840
Filename :
4479840
Link To Document :
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