Single event soft error in advanced integrated circuit

Y Zhao, S Yue, X Zhao, S Lu, Q Bian… - Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
As technology feature size decreases, single event upset (SEU), and single event transient
(SET) dominate the radiation response of microcircuits. Multiple bit upset (MBU)(or multi cell …

Technology scaling comparison of flip-flop heavy-ion single-event upset cross sections

NJ Gaspard, S Jagannathan, ZJ Diggins… - … on Nuclear Science, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heavy-ion experimental results from flip-flops in 180-nm to 28-nm bulk technologies are
used to quantify single-event upset trends. The results show that as technologies scale, D …

A novel layout-based single event transient injection approach to evaluate the soft error rate of large combinational circuits in complimentary metal-oxide …

Y Du, S Chen - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the technology scales down, space radiation induced soft errors are becoming a critical
issue for the reliability of Integrated Circuits (ICs). In this paper, we propose a novel layout …

Soft error detection and correction architecture for asynchronous bundled data designs

FA Kuentzer, M Krstic - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an asynchronous design for soft error detection and correction in
combinational and sequential circuits is presented. The proposed architecture is called …

Radiation hardened click controllers for soft error resilient asynchronous architectures

FA Kuentzer, M Herrera, O Schrape… - 2020 26th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring modern VLSI systems are resilient to soft errors resulting from radiation effects
continues to be a challenging problem. Traditional Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) …

Single-event multiple transients in conventional and guard-ring hardened inverter chains under pulsed laser and heavy-ion irradiation

R Chen, F Zhang, W Chen, L Ding… - … on Nuclear Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-event multiple transients (SEMTs) are investigated using an on-chip self-triggered
circuit. Measured results for inverter chains of two layout designs, including a guard-ring …

The impact of depletion region potential modulation on ion-induced current transient response

NC Hooten, WG Bennett, LD Edmonds… - … on Nuclear Science, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transient capture measurements on an irradiated diode show the effect of increasing ion
LET and varying strike location on transient current response. Significant modulation of the …

Layout based radiation hardening techniques against single-event transient

B Liang, D Luo, Q Sun, W Chen - Microelectronics Reliability, 2022 - Elsevier
The single-event transient (SET) is regarded as one of the critical reliability issues for the soft
errors in modern circuit designs, especially at the advanced technology node. To improve …

Scaling effect and circuit type dependence of neutron induced single event transient

H Nakamura, T Uemura, K Takeuchi… - 2012 IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neutron induced single event transient (SET) has been measured on NAND and inverter
(INV) chain with changing fan-out, drive strength, size of drain diffusion area, temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient Modeling of Single Event Transient Effect with Limited Peak Current: Implications for Logic Circuits

Y Wang, H Lu, C Yang, Y Zhang, R Yao, R Dong… - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The problem that the conventional double-exponential transient current model (DE model)
can overdrive the circuit, which leads to the overestimation of the soft error rate of the logic …