A Compact Model of Negative Bias Temperature Instability Suitable for Gate-Level Circuit Simulation

Xu Liu, Alessandro Bernardini, Ulf Schlichtmann, Xing Zhou

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Abstract

Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has been a reliability concern with CMOS technology scaling. The threshold voltage of a p-MOSFET degrades, resulting in the delay increment of a digital gate since more time is needed to charge the output load. The gate-level timing model takes the threshold voltage shift as an input. Therefore, an accurate and fast simulation method for NBTI is important. In this paper, a new approach to efficiently yet accurately compute the threshold voltage degradation due to AC-mode NBTI is proposed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages76-80
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728103921
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Apr 2019
Event20th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2019 - Santa Clara, United States
Duration: 6 Mar 20197 Mar 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED
Volume2019-March
ISSN (Print)1948-3287
ISSN (Electronic)1948-3295

Conference

Conference20th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Clara
Period6/03/197/03/19

Keywords

  • NBTI
  • Reliability
  • compact modeling

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