Soft Error Mechanisms, Modeling and Mitigation

by Selahattin Sayil

Overview

This book introduces readers to various radiation soft-error mechanisms such as soft delays, radiation induced clock jitter and pulses, and single event (SE) coupling induced effects. In addition to discussing various radiation hardening techniques for combinational logic, the author also describes new mitigation strategies targeting commercial designs. Coverage includes novel soft error mitigation techniques such as the Dynamic Threshold Technique and Soft Error Filtering based on Transmission gate with varied gate and body bias. The discussion also includes modeling of SE crosstalk noise, delay and speed-up effects. Various mitigation strategies to eliminate SE coupling effects are also introduced. Coverage also includes the reliability of low power energy-efficient designs and the impact of leakage power consumption optimizations on soft error robustness. The author presents an analysis of various power optimization techniques, enabling readers to make design choices that reduce static power consumption and improve soft error reliability at the same time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319808482
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/18/2018
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Pages:	105
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Selahattin Sayil is an Associate Professor in the Philip M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering at Lamar University. His research focuses on Radiation effects modeling and hardening at the circuit level, Reliability analysis of low power designs, and Interconnect modeling and noise prediction.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Mitigation of Single Event Effects.- Transmission Gate (TG) Based Soft Error Mitigation Methods.- Single Event Soft Error Mechanisms.- Modeling Single Event Crosstalk Noise in Nanometer Technologies.- Modeling of Single Event Coupling Delay and Speedup Effects.- Single Event Upset Hardening of Interconnects.- Soft-Error Aware Power Optimization.- Dynamic Threshold Technique for Soft Error and Soft Delay Mitigation.

Editorial Reviews

Book gives wide perspectives on the technical insights of fundamentals of sources and mitigation strategies of soft error rates in semiconductor memory devices … . a valuable addition to a scientific library, as well as served as good introduction for memory reliability engineers or specialists and industrials involved in the field of memory device reliability. This book is highly recommended for people who desire a better understanding of the theory and practice of SER and technical considerations in SER mitigations.” (Chong Leong Gan, Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 74 (81), 2017)

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