Transistor network restructuring against NBTI degradation
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چکیده
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a critical reliability concern for nanometer PMOS transistors. A logic function can be designed by alternative transistor networks. This work evaluates the impact of the NBTI effect in the delay of CMOS gates considering both the effect of intra cell pull-up structures and the effect of decomposing the function into multiple stages. Intra cell pull-up PMOS transistor arrangements have been restructured to minimize the number of devices under severe NBTI degradation. Also, circuits decomposed into more than one stage have been compared to their single stage design version. Electrical simulation results reveal that the restructuring of intra-cell transistor networks recovers up to 15% of rise delay degradation due to NBTI, while the decomposition of single stage circuit topologies into multi-stage topologies tends to reduce the rise degradation delay at a cost of fall delay degradation. .
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Microelectronics Reliability
دوره 50 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010