TY - GEN
T1 - Circuit-level delay modeling considering both TDDB and NBTI
AU - Luo, Hong
AU - Chen, Xiaoming
AU - Velamala, Jyothi
AU - Wang, Yu
AU - Cao, Yu
AU - Chandra, Vikas
AU - Ma, Yuchun
AU - Yang, Huazhong
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - With aggressive scaling down of the technology node, the time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) and negative biased temperature instability (NBTI) are becoming key challenges for circuit designers. Both TDDB and NBTI significantly degrade the electrical characteristic of the CMOS devices. A delay model considering TDDB and NBTI is proposed in this paper. The output degradation of the breakdown gate is considered in circuit-level delay analysis. Traditionally, it is considered the TDDB degradation always degrades the circuit delay. However, this paper shows the TDDB effect may boost up the circuit speed. The spatial correlation of TDDB effect is also demonstrated in this paper and shows the difference of 40% in circuit delay depending on the location of the breakdown gate in the signal path.
AB - With aggressive scaling down of the technology node, the time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) and negative biased temperature instability (NBTI) are becoming key challenges for circuit designers. Both TDDB and NBTI significantly degrade the electrical characteristic of the CMOS devices. A delay model considering TDDB and NBTI is proposed in this paper. The output degradation of the breakdown gate is considered in circuit-level delay analysis. Traditionally, it is considered the TDDB degradation always degrades the circuit delay. However, this paper shows the TDDB effect may boost up the circuit speed. The spatial correlation of TDDB effect is also demonstrated in this paper and shows the difference of 40% in circuit delay depending on the location of the breakdown gate in the signal path.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISQED.2011.5770697
DO - 10.1109/ISQED.2011.5770697
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959232668
SN - 9781612849140
T3 - Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2011
SP - 14
EP - 21
BT - Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2011
T2 - 12th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2011
Y2 - 14 March 2011 through 16 March 2011
ER -