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1.2 Reliability Engineering: A Brief History |
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1.3 Reliability of Electronic Systems |
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1.4 Reliability in Nanometer CMOS |
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1.4.1 Reduction of the Effective Oxide Thickness |
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1.4.2 Introduction of New Materials and Devices |
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1.4.3 Atomic-Scale Dimensions |
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1.4.5 Time and Money Constraints |
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1.5 Design for Reliability |
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1.5.4 Quantify, Improve and Validate |
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1.5.5 Monitor and Control |
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2 CMOS Reliability Overview |
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2.2 The Origin of CMOS Unreliability |
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2.3 Spatial Unreliability |
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2.4 Temporal Unreliability |
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3 Transistor Aging Compact Modeling |
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3.2 Hot Carrier Injection |
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3.2.2 A HCI Compact Model for Circuit Simulation |
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3.2.3 HCI in Sub-45 nm CMOS |
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3.3 Bias Temperature Instability |
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3.3.2 A BTI Compact Model for Circuit Simulation |
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3.3.3 Model Calibration and Validation |
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3.3.4 BTI in Sub-45 nm CMOS |
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3.4 Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown |
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3.5 Aging-Equivalent Transistor Model |
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3.6 Aging Model for Hand Calculations |
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4 Background on IC Reliability Simulation |
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4.2.1 Berkeley Reliability Tools (BERT) |
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4.2.2 Other Reliability Simulators |
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4.3 Commercial Reliability Simulators |
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4.3.1 The Mentor Graphics Reliability Simulator |
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4.3.2 The Cadence Reliability Simulator (BERT/RelXpert) |
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4.3.3 The Synopsys Reliability Simulator (MOSRA) |
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5 Analog IC Reliability Simulation |
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5.2 Deterministic Reliability Simulation |
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5.3 Stochastic Reliability Simulation |
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5.3.2 Implementation 1: Monte-Carlo Simulation |
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5.3.3 Implementation 2: A Response Surface Methodology |
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5.4 Hierarchical Reliability Simulation |
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6 Integrated Circuit Reliability |
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6.2.1 Observed Performance Parameter |
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6.2.2 Process Capability Index |
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6.3 Failure-Resilient Circuits |
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6.3.1 Intrinsically Robust Circuits |
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6.3.2 Self-healing Circuits |
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6.4.2 Conventional Design |
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6.4.3 Reliability-Aware Design: Fixed Topology |
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6.4.4 Reliability-Aware Design: Digitally-Assisted Analog |
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6.5 Case Study 2: Digital Circuits |
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6.5.1 Digital Circuit Lifetime |
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6.5.2 Minimum Circuit Lifetime |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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