Title
Stress Probability Computation For Estimating Nbti-Induced Delay Degradation
Abstract
PMOS stress (ON) probability has a strong impact on circuit timing degradation due to NBTI effect. This paper evaluates how the granularity of stress probability calculation affects NBTI prediction using a state-of-the-art long term prediction model. Experimental evaluations show that the stress probability should be estimated at transistor level to accurately predict the increase in delay, especially when the circuit operation and/or inputs are highly biased. We then devise and evaluate two annotation methods of stress probability to gate-level timing analysis; one guarantees the pessimism desirable for timing analysis and the other aims to obtain the result close to transistor-level timing analysis. Experimental results show that gate-level timing analysis with transistor-level stress probability calculation estimates the increase in delay with 12.6% error.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1587/transfun.E94.A.2545
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Keywords
Field
DocType
NBTI, stress probability, timing analysis
Long-term prediction,Control theory,Computer science,Degradation (geology),Theoretical computer science,Static timing analysis,Granularity,PMOS logic,Transistor,Statistics,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E94A
12
0916-8508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroaki Konoura1365.00
Yukio Mitsuyama213420.01
Masanori Hashimoto346279.39
Takao Onoye432968.21