Title
Experimental Characterization of Time-Dependent Variability in Ring Oscillators
Abstract
Reliability in CMOS-based integrated circuits has always been a critical concern. In today's ultra-scaled technologies, a time-varying kind of variability has raised that, on top of the well-known time-zero variability, threatens to shorten the lifetime of integrated circuits, both analog and digital. Effects like Bias Temperature Instability and Hot Carriers Injection need to be studied, characterized and modeled to include, and, thus, mitigate, their impact in the design of CMOS integrated circuits. This paper presents an array-based integrated circuit whose purpose is precisely that: to observe, quantify and characterize the impact of time-dependent variability effects in a specific kind of circuits: Ring Oscillators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/SMACD.2019.8795300
2019 16th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bias Temperature Instability,Hot Carriers Injection,Ring oscillators,Frequency degradation
Temperature instability,Oscillation,Computer science,Hot-carrier injection,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Electronic circuit,Integrated circuit
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2575-4874
978-1-7281-1202-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7