On BTI Aging Rejuvenation in Memory Address Decoders

Memory designs require timing margins to compensate for aging and fabrication process variations. With technology downscaling, aging mechanisms became more apparent, and larger margins are considered necessary. This, in return, means a larger area requirement and lower performance for the memory. Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) is one of the...

Hardware-based aging mitigation scheme for memory address decoder

Designers typically add design margins to memories to compensate for their aging. As the aging impact increases with technology scaling, bigger margins become necessary. However, this negatively impacts area, yield, performance, and power consumption. Alternatively, mitigation schemes can be used to reduce the impact of aging. This paper...

Software-Based Mitigation for Memory Address Decoder Aging

Integrated circuits typically contain design margins to compensate for aging. As aging impact increases with technology scaling, bigger margins are necessary to achieve the desired reliability. However, these increased margins lead to a reduced performance and lower yield. Alternatively, mitigation schemes can be deployed to reduce the aging....

Experimental and Industrial Evaluation of Variability Resilient Schemes

As semiconductor devices shrink further, the effects of process variation become more and more pronounced. They negatively impact the speed and power consumption of Integrated Circuits (ICs). Traditionally, a worst-case based design methodology is used to compensate for their potential impact. For modern technology this method means an increased...

Zwermintelligentie voor een Self-Deploying Sensor Swarm

Dit document beschrijft de ontwikkeling van een simulator voor een Self-Deploying Sensor Swarm (SDSS). Daarnaast worden er ook twee mogelijke vormen van zwermintelligentie geïmplementeerd. Dit project is een onderdeel van een opdracht voor het Bachelor afstudeerproject op de TU Delft. Deze opdracht betreft het maken van een demonstratie van een...