Abstract:
In nanoscale era, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Positive Bias Temperature Instability (PBTI) weaken PMOS and NMOS transistors, respectively, leading to...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
In nanoscale era, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Positive Bias Temperature Instability (PBTI) weaken PMOS and NMOS transistors, respectively, leading to performance degradation. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of NBTI and PBTI impacts on SRAM decoders including single stage static and dynamic as well as two stage static decoders while applying realistic addressing schemes (i.e. linear, gray and address complement) to present different workloads. The analysis shows that the strength of the impact strongly depends on the decoder design and the addressing scheme; the impact can be as worst as 28% additional delay in the activation of the wordline.
Published in: 2013 18th IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS)
Date of Conference: 27-30 May 2013
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 29 July 2013
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