論文

査読有り
2016年

Critical Path Isolation for Time-to-Failure Extension and Lower Voltage Operation

2016 IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (ICCAD)
  • Yutaka Masuda
  • ,
  • Masanori Hashimoto
  • ,
  • Takao Onoye

記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
DOI
10.1145/2966986.2967019
出版者・発行元
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY

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.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2966986.2967019
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000390297800063&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1145/2966986.2967019
  • ISSN : 1933-7760
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000390297800063

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