Presentation 2018-12-07
Flip-Flops with different retention characteristics for process variation estimation
Kento Fukazawa, Shinichi Nishizawa, Kazuhito Ito,
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Abstract(in English) This paper proposes to use multiple D-Flip-Flops having different retention characteristics with Ring Oscillator to monitor the PMOS and NMOS variabilities. Flip-Flops in Scan Chain are used as a process monitor circuit to estimate the amount of process variation. The retention characteristics of Flip-Flops strongly depend on the PMOS and NMOS transistors. We propose to use Flip-Flops with various transistors width to estimate the amount of process variation with one-shot measurement. Experimental result targeting 65 nm process shows that we can estimate the amount of threshold variation and the estimated errors are 1.75 mV and 1.17 mV for PMOS and NMOS transistor, respectively.
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Keyword(in English) Variation / Flip-Flop
Paper # VLD2018-66,DC2018-52
Date of Issue 2018-11-28 (VLD, DC)

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Committee VLD / DC / CPSY / RECONF / CPM / ICD / IE / IPSJ-SLDM / IPSJ-EMB / IPSJ-ARC
Conference Date 2018/12/5(3days)
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Place (in English) Satellite Campus Hiroshima
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Topics (in English) Design Gaia 2018 -New Field of VLSI Design-
Chair Noriyuki Minegishi(Mitsubishi Electric) / Satoshi Fukumoto(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Koji Nakano(Hiroshima Univ.) / Masato Motomura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Fumihiko Hirose(Yamagata Univ.) / Hideto Hidaka(Renesas) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Yutaka Tamiya(Fujitsu Laboratories) / 渡辺 晴美(東海大) / 井上 弘士(九大)
Vice Chair Nozomu Togawa(Waseda Univ.) / Hiroshi Takahashi(Ehime Univ.) / Hidetsugu Irie(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takashi Miyoshi(Fujitsu) / Yuichiro Shibata(Nagasaki Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(RIKEN) / Mayumi Takeyama(Kitami Inst. of Tech.) / Makoto Nagata(Kobe Univ.) / Hideaki Kimata(NTT) / Kazuya Kodama(NII)
Secretary Nozomu Togawa(NTT) / Hiroshi Takahashi(Aizu Univ.) / Hidetsugu Irie(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Takashi Miyoshi(Nihon Univ.) / Yuichiro Shibata(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(Hokkaido Univ.) / Mayumi Takeyama(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Makoto Nagata(e-trees.Japan) / Hideaki Kimata(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / Kazuya Kodama(NTT) / (Panasonic) / (Tohoku Univ.) / (KDDI Research)
Assistant / / Yasuaki Ito(Hiroshima Univ.) / Tomoaki Tsumura(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Yuuki Kobayashi(NEC) / Hiroki Nakahara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yasuo Kimura(Tokyo Univ. of Tech.) / Hideki Nakazawa(Hirosaki Univ.) / Tomoaki Terasako(Ehime Univ.) / Hiroyuki Ito(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Masatoshi Tsuge(Socionext) / Tetsuya Hirose(Kobe Univ.) / Kazuya Hayase(NTT) / Yasutaka Matsuo(NHK) / Hiroe Iwasaki(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Technical Committee on Dependable Computing / Technical Committee on Computer Systems / Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems / Technical Committee on Component Parts and Materials / Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology / Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems / Special Interest Group on System Architecture
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Flip-Flops with different retention characteristics for process variation estimation
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Variation
Keyword(2) Flip-Flop
1st Author's Name Kento Fukazawa
1st Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shinichi Nishizawa
2nd Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Kazuhito Ito
3rd Author's Affiliation Saitama University(Saitama Univ.)
Date 2018-12-07
Paper # VLD2018-66,DC2018-52
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) VLD-334,DC-335
Page pp.pp.189-193(VLD), pp.189-193(DC),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2018-11-28 (VLD, DC)