IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms
Stress Probability Computation for Estimating NBTI-Induced Delay Degradation
Hiroaki KONOURAYukio MITSUYAMAMasanori HASHIMOTOTakao ONOYE
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2011 Volume E94.A Issue 12 Pages 2545-2553

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PMOS stress (ON) probability has a strong impact on circuit timing degradation due to NBTI effect. This paper evaluates how the granularity of stress probability calculation affects NBTI prediction using a state-of-the-art long term prediction model. Experimental evaluations show that the stress probability should be estimated at transistor level to accurately predict the increase in delay, especially when the circuit operation and/or inputs are highly biased. We then devise and evaluate two annotation methods of stress probability to gate-level timing analysis; one guarantees the pessimism desirable for timing analysis and the other aims to obtain the result close to transistor-level timing analysis. Experimental results show that gate-level timing analysis with transistor-level stress probability calculation estimates the increase in delay with 12.6% error.

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