Title
Timing vulnerability factors of sequential elements in modern microprocessors
Abstract
An efficient and novel technique for computing timing vulnerability factors (TVF) in modern complex synchronous designs is introduced, where all key inputs are based on static timing data readily available in most design databases. The benefits of TVF for modern microprocessors and strategies to reduce TVF, and hence the overall soft error rate (SER), are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IOLTS.2013.6604051
On-Line Testing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
integrated circuit reliability,microprocessor chips,radiation hardening (electronics),timing,SER reduction,TVF reduction,complex synchronous design,microprocessors,sequential elements,soft error rate reduction,static timing data,timing vulnerability factors,SER,TVF,soft error,timing derating,timing vulnerability factor
Soft error,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Static timing analysis,Vulnerability factors,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1942-9398
2
0.39
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arkady Bramnik120.39
Andrei Sherban220.39
Norbert Seifert320.73