GNOMO: Greater-than-NOMinal V dd operation for BTI mitigation

Saket Gupta, Sachin S Sapatnekar

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel scheme for mitigating delay degradations in digital circuits due to bias temperature instability (BTI). The method works in two alternating phases. In the first, a greater-than-nominal supply voltage, V dd,g is used, which causes a task to complete more quickly but causes greater aging than the nominal supply voltage, V dd,n. In the second, the circuit is power-gated, enabling the BTI recovery phase. We demonstrate, both at the circuit and the architectural levels, that this approach can significantly mitigate aging for a small performance penalty.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASP-DAC 2012 - 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Pages271-276
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2012 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: Jan 30 2012Feb 2 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

Other

Other17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2012
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period1/30/122/2/12

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