Extratime: Modeling and analysis of wearout due to transistor aging at microarchitecture-level

F Oboril, MB Tahoori - IEEE/IFIP International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With shrinking feature sizes, transistor aging due to NBTI and HCI becomes a major
reliability challenge for microprocessors. These processes lead to increased gate delays …

Lifetime reliability enhancement of microprocessors: Mitigating the impact of negative bias temperature instability

H Hong, J Lim, H Lim, S Kang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2015 - dl.acm.org
Ensuring lifetime reliability of microprocessors has become more critical. Continuous scaling
and increasing temperatures due to growing power density are threatening lifetime …

Aging-aware voltage scaling

VM Van Santen, H Amrouch, N Parihar… - … , Automation & Test …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As feature sizes of transistors began to approach atomic levels, aging effects have become
one of major concerns when it comes to reliability. Recently, aging effects have become a …

Long-term reliability of nanometer VLSI systems

S Tan, M Tahoori, T Kim, S Wang, Z Sun, S Kiamehr - Cham: Springer, 2019 - Springer
Reliability has become a more serious design challenge for current nanometer very large-
scale integrated (VLSI) circuits especially as the technology has advanced into 7nm. It was …

Fine-grained aging-induced delay prediction based on the monitoring of run-time stress

A Vijayan, A Koneru, S Kiamehr… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Run-time solutions based on online monitoring and adaptation are required for resilience in
nanoscale integrated circuits, as design-time solutions and guard bands are no longer …

Contemporary CMOS aging mitigation techniques: Survey, taxonomy, and methods

N Khoshavi, RA Ashraf, RF DeMara, S Kiamehr… - Integration, 2017 - Elsevier
The proposed paper addresses the overarching reliability issue of transistor aging in
nanometer-scaled circuits. Specifically, a comprehensive survey and taxonomy of …

Applicability of power-gating strategies for aging mitigation of CMOS logic paths

N Khoshavi, RA Ashraf… - 2014 IEEE 57th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive CMOS technology scaling trends exacerbate the aging-related degradation of
propagation delay and energy efficiency in nanoscale designs. Recently, Power-gating has …

Towards graceful aging degradation in NoCs through an adaptive routing algorithm

K Bhardwaj, K Chakraborty, S Roy - Proceedings of the 49th Annual …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Continuous technology scaling has made aging mechanisms such as Negative Bias
Temperature Instability (NBTI) and electromigration primary concerns in Network-on-Chip …

VarEMU: An emulation testbed for variability-aware software

L Wanner, S Elmalaki, L Lai, P Gupta… - … Codesign and System …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern integrated circuits, fabricated in nanometer technologies, suffer from significant
power/performance variation across-chip, chip-to-chip and over time due to aging and …

Confronting the variability issues affecting the performance of next-generation SRAM design to optimize and predict the speed and yield

J Samandari-Rad, M Guthaus, R Hughey - IEEE Access, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effectively confronting device and circuit parameter variations to maintain or improve the
design of high performance and energy efficient systems while satisfying historical …