Title :
Reliability- and Process-variation aware design of integrated circuits — A broader perspective
Author :
Alam, Muhammad A. ; Roy, Kaushik ; Augustine, Charles
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
A broad review the literature for Reliability- and Process-variation aware VLSI design shows a re-emergence of the topic as a core area of active research. Design of reliable circuits with unreliable components has been a challenge since the early days of electro-mechanical switches and have been addressed by elegant coding and redundancy techniques. And radiation hard design principles have been used extensively for systems affected by soft transient errors. Additional modern reliability concerns associated with parametric degradation of NBTI and soft-broken gate dielectrics and proliferation of memory and thin-film technologies add new dimension to reliability-aware design. Taken together, these device, circuit, architectural, and software based fault-tolerant approaches have enabled continued scaling of integrated circuits and is likely to be a part of any reliability qualification protocol for future technology generations.
Keywords :
fault tolerance; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit reliability; radiation hardening (electronics); NBTI; VLSI design; elegant coding; integrated circuit design; negative bias temperature instability; parametric degradation; process variation aware design; radiation hard design; redundancy technique; reliability aware design; reliability qualification protocol; soft broken gate dielectric; soft transient error; software based fault tolerance; Circuit faults; Degradation; Integrated circuit reliability; Reliability engineering; Transient analysis; Transistors; circuit design; lifetime projection; modeling; positive reliability physics; variability;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9113-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1541-7026
DOI :
10.1109/IRPS.2011.5784500