2016年
Critical Path Isolation for Time-to-Failure Extension and Lower Voltage Operation
2016 IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (ICCAD)
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- 英語
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- 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
- DOI
- 10.1145/2966986.2967019
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Device miniaturization due to technology scaling has made manufacturing variability and aging more significant, and lower supply voltage makes circuits sensitive to dynamic environmental fluctuation. These may shorten the time to failure (TTF) of fabricated chips unexpectedly. This paper focuses on critical path isolation, which increases timing slack of non-intrinsic critical paths and decreases timing error occurrence probability in the circuit, and proposes a design methodology of isolated circuits for TTF extension and/or lower voltage operation. The proposed methodology selects a set of FFs for isolation using ILP so that it maximumly reduces the sum of gate-wise failure probabilities. We evaluated MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) of circuits with/without critical path isolation and examined how much supply voltage could be reduced without MTTF degradation. Evaluation results show that circuits with the proposed critical path isolation achieved 25% supply voltage reduction with 1.4% area overhead. With the same supply voltage, MTTF was improved by 14 orders of magnitude.
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- DOI : 10.1145/2966986.2967019
- ISSN : 1933-7760
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000390297800063