Circuit Design for Reliability

Describing practical modeling and characterization techniques for designing reliable electrical circuits, this volume includes a thorough presentation of robust designs for major VLSI units. Its first-principle simulations aid physical understanding.

This book presents physical understanding, modeling and simulation, on-chip characterization, layout solutions, and design techniques that are effective to enhance the reliability of various circuit units. The authors provide readers with techniques for state of the art and future technologies, ranging from technology modeling, fault detection and analysis, circuit hardening, and reliability management.

Provides comprehensive review on various reliability mechanisms at sub-45nm nodes Describes practical modeling and characterization techniques for reliability Includes thorough presentation of robust design techniques for major VLSI design units Promotes physical understanding with first-principle simulations Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Recent Trends in Bias Temperature Instability.- Charge trapping phenomena in MOSFETS: From Noise to Bias Temperature Instability.- Atomistic Simulations on Reliability.- On-chip characterization of statistical device degradation.- Circuit Resilience Roadmap.- Layout Aware Electromigration Analysis of Power/Ground Networks.- Power-Gating for Leakage Control and Beyond.- Soft Error Rate and Fault Tolerance Techniques for FPGAs.