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Nov, 2015

Wide-Supply-Range All-Digital Leakage Variation Sensor for On-Chip Process and Temperature Monitoring

IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS
  • A. K. M. Mahfuzul Islam
  • ,
  • Jun Shiomi
  • ,
  • Tohru Ishihara
  • ,
  • Hidetoshi Onodera

Volume
50
Number
11
First page
2475
Last page
2490
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1109/JSSC.2015.2461598
Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Variation in process, voltage and temperature is a major obstacle in achieving energy-efficient operation of LSI. This paper proposes an all-digital on-chip circuit to monitor leakage current variations of both of the nMOSFET and pMOSFET independently. As leakage current is highly sensitive to threshold voltage and temperature, the circuit is suitable for tracking process and temperature variation. The circuit uses reconfigurable inhomogeneity to obtain statistical properties from a single monitor instance. A compact reconfigurable inverter topology is proposed to implement the monitor circuit. The compact and digital nature of the inverter enables cell-based design, which will reduce design costs. Measurement results from a 65 nm test chip show the validity of the proposed circuit. For a 124 sample size for both of the nMOSFET and pMOSFET, the monitor area is 4500 mu m(2) and active power consumption is 76 nW at 0.8 V operation. The proposed technique enables area-efficient and low-cost implementation thus can be used in product chips for applications such as dynamic energy and thermal management, testing and post-silicon tuning.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2015.2461598
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/journals/jssc/MahfuzulSIO15
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000364458200002&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/jssc/jssc50.html#MahfuzulSIO15
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1109/JSSC.2015.2461598
  • ISSN : 0018-9200
  • eISSN : 1558-173X
  • DBLP ID : journals/jssc/MahfuzulSIO15
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000364458200002

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