Managing Temperature Effects in Nanoscale Adaptive Systems

by David Wolpert, Paul Ampadu

Overview

This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and systems. A new sensor system is described that can determine the temperature dependence as well as the operating temperature to improve system reliability. A new method is presented to control a circuit’s temperature dependence by individually tuning pull-up and pull-down networks to their temperature-insensitive operating points. This method extends the range of supply voltages that can be made temperature-insensitive, achieving insensitivity at nominal voltage for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781489987228
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/20/2014
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

The Role of Temperature in Electronic Design.- Temperature Effects in Semiconductors.- Sensing Temperature Dependence.- Variation-Tolerant Adaptive Voltage Systems.- Controlling the Temperature Dependence.- Exploiting Temperature Dependence in Low-Swing Interconnect Links.- Avoiding Temperature-Induced Errors in On-Chip Interconnects.- Future Work and Open Problems.