Aging-and variation-aware delay monitoring using representative critical path selection

F Firouzi, F Ye, K Chakrabarty, MB Tahoori - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2015dl.acm.org
Process together with runtime variations in temperature and voltage, as well as transistor
aging, degrade path delay and may eventually induce circuit failure due to timing variations.
Therefore, in-field tracking of path delays is essential, and to respond to this need, several
delay sensor designs have been proposed in the literature. However, due to the significant
overhead of these sensors and the large number of critical paths in today's IC, it is infeasible
to monitor the delay of every critical path in silicon. We present an aging-and variationaware …
Process together with runtime variations in temperature and voltage, as well as transistor aging, degrade path delay and may eventually induce circuit failure due to timing variations. Therefore, in-field tracking of path delays is essential, and to respond to this need, several delay sensor designs have been proposed in the literature. However, due to the significant overhead of these sensors and the large number of critical paths in today's IC, it is infeasible to monitor the delay of every critical path in silicon. We present an aging- and variationaware representative path selection technique based on machine learning that allows to measure the delay of a small set of paths and infer the delay of a larger pool of paths that are likely to fail due to delay variations. Simulation results for benchmark circuits highlight the accuracy of the proposed approach for predicting critical-path delay based on the selected representative paths.
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