A data remanence based approach to generate 100% stable keys from an sram physical unclonable function

M Liu, C Zhou, Q Tang, KK Parhi… - 2017 IEEE/ACM …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The start-up value of an SRAM cell is unique, random, and unclonable as it is determined by
the inherent process mismatch between transistors. These properties make SRAM an …

Impact Analysis of NBTI/PBTI on SRAM VMIN and Design Techniques for Improved SRAM VMIN

TTH Kim, ZH Kong - JSTS: Journal of Semiconductor Technology …, 2013 - koreascience.kr
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) and positive bias temperature instability (PBTI)
are critical circuit reliability issues in highly scaled CMOS technologies. In this paper, we …

A secure data-toggling SRAM for confidential data protection

WG Ho, KS Chong, TTH Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the security feature of static random access memory (SRAM) against the data
imprinting attack and provide a solution to protect the SRAM from this attack. There are four …

SRAM read performance degradation under asymmetric NBTI and PBTI stress: Characterization vehicle and statistical aging data

X Wang, W Xu, CH Kim - Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 Custom …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Asymmetric BTI aging in circuit paths has shown to cause a time dependent shift in the
signal's duty cycle, affecting the performance of circuits such as low power SRAMs whose …

A VDD correction method for static stability test of SRAM bit cell

Y Liu, Z Shi, W Pan, F Lan - IEEE Transactions on Device and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SRAM stability is a major concern in nanometer CMOS technologies. As the most important
metrics of SRAM static stability, the static characteristics of SRAM are derived by static …

Predictive Testing for Aging in SRAMs and Mitigation

Y Lin, M Li, S Gupta - 2024 IEEE International Test Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a method to estimate lifetime performance, yield, and power for Static Random-
Access Memories (SRAMs) that captures the combination of process variations and aging …

Impacts of NBTI/PBTI on SRAM VMIN and design techniques for SRAM VMIN improvement

TT Kim, ZH Kong - 2011 International SoC Design Conference, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Positive Bias Temperature Instability
(PBTI) are critical circuit reliability issues in highly scaled CMOS technologies. In this paper …

A Threshold Voltage Deviation Monitoring Scheme of Bit Transistors in 6T SRAM for Manufacturing Defects Detection

R Liu, H Li, Z Yang, G Wang, Z Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transistor random threshold voltage variations due to process fluctuations seriously affects
the stability of Static Random Access Memory (SRAM). In this paper, a SRAM bit transistors …

Asymmetric sizing: An effective design approach for SRAM cells against BTI aging

X Zuo, SK Gupta - 2017 IEEE 35th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rate of aging of ICs is increasing with the continued reduction in feature sizes of devices.
Bias temperature instability (BTI) is considered to be the major reliability hazard in nano …

Recent advances in in-situ and in-field aging monitoring and compensation for integrated circuits

M Seok, PR Kinget, T Yang, J Li… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews recent advances in in-situ and in-field techniques for monitoring and
compensating aging in digital integrated circuits. For pipelines, we introduce an approach …