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Monitoring the delay of long interconnects via distributed TDC


Abstract:

Interconnects are sophisticated in a multi-die IC using integration technology such as interposer or Wafer-Level Packaging (WLP), and thus they could become vulnerable to...Show More

Abstract:

Interconnects are sophisticated in a multi-die IC using integration technology such as interposer or Wafer-Level Packaging (WLP), and thus they could become vulnerable to early lifetime failure or aging. Our previous work in [12] provides a way to monitor the delay of a TSV non-intrusively by a transition time binning procedure. However, it is not suitable for longer interconnects in an interposer or in the Re-Distribution Layer (RDL) of a WLP-packaged IC, as the cost could become prohibitively high due to large area overhead. To overcome this limitation, we propose a new scheme in this paper by incorporating a Distributed Time-to-Digital Converter (d-TDC). Experimental results indicate that such a scheme can support on-line delay monitoring for long interconnects, while having an area overhead equivalent to 2 boundary scan cells only for each interconnect.
Date of Conference: 06-08 October 2015
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 December 2015
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4673-6578-9
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA, USA

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