Abstract
This paper presents a statistical leakage estimation method for FinFET devices considering the unique width quantization property. Monte Carlo simulations show that the conventional approach underestimates the average leakage current of FinFET devices by as much as 43% while the proposed approach gives a precise estimation with an error less than 5%. Design example on subthreshold circuits shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 206-209 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received September 4, 2006; revised March 14, 2007. This work was supported in part by Intel and by IBM. The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA (e-mail: jiegu@ece. umn.edu). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TVLSI.2007.909809
Keywords
- Circuit modeling
- Integrated circuit (IC) design
- Leakage currents