PIPBQ Effect Aware SER Analysis for Combinational Logic Circuits

摘要

Technology scaling results in the propagation-induced pulse broadening and quenching (PIPBQ) effect become more noticeable. In order to effectively evaluate the soft error rate for combinational logic circuits, a soft error rate analysis approach considering the PIPBQ effect is proposed. As different original pulse propagating through logic gate cells, pulse broadening and quenching are measured by HSPICE. After that, electrical effect look-up tables (EELUTs) for logic gate cells are created to evaluate the PIPBQ effect. Sensitized paths are accurately retrieved by the proposed re-convergence aware sensitized path search algorithm. Further, by propagating pulses on these paths to simulate fault injection, the PIPBQ effect on these paths can be quantified by EELUTs. As a result, the soft error rate of circuits can be effectively computed by the proposed technique. Simulation results verify the soft error rate improvement comparing with the PIPBQ-not-aware method.