Title
Modeling the impact of well contacts on SEE response with bias-dependent Single-Event compact model.
Abstract
With technology scaling, a common and efficient strategy to improve the soft error vulnerability of sensitive nodes is to place well/substrate contacts frequently. This paper reports a revised method to integrate the impact of well contacts on SEE response with the bias-dependent SE compact model for circuit simulation. After modifying the SE sub-circuit with resistors and current source placed between the n-well and p-well contacts and then calibrating the parameters by layout-level TCAD simulation results, the resulting model is able to evaluate the SEE vulnerability of devices and circuits with various well contacts. Besides, it is able to evaluate the hardness performance of well contact optimization before fabrication.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.microrel.2017.11.001
Microelectronics Reliability
Keywords
Field
DocType
Single event effects,Well contacts,Circuit simulation,TCAD simulation
Simulation,Electronic engineering,Engineering
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
81
0026-2714
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lili Ding110.75
Wei Chen23812.15
Hong-xia Guo332.12
Tan Wang4463.71
Rongmei Chen500.34
Yinhong Luo610.75
Fengqi Zhang711.42
Xiaoyu Pan800.34