With aggressive technology scaling, integrated circuits suffer from everincreasing wearout effects and their lifetime reliability has become a serious concern for the industry. Fo...
Abstract—Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) significantly affects nanoscale integrated circuit performance and reliability. The degradation in threshold voltage (Vth) d...
Register files are in the critical path of most high-performance processors and their latency is one of the most important factors that limit their size. Our goal is to develop er...
Gokhan Memik, Masud H. Chowdhury, Arindam Mallik, ...
As VLSI circuit speeds have increased, reliable chip and system design can no longer be performed without accurate threedimensional interconnect models. In this paper, we describe...
Nuno Alexandre Marques, Mattan Kamon, Jacob White,...
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become the dominant reliability concern for nanoscale PMOS transistors. In this paper, a predictive model is developed for the deg...