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ICE-RADAR: In-situ, Cost-Effective Razor Flip-Flop Deployment for Aging Resilience
(2019-01-01)
Wu, Kai-Chiang
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Huang, Wei-Tao
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Huang, Chiao-Yang
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資訊工程學系
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Department of Computer Science
Device aging, which causes significant loss on circuit performance and lifetime, has been a primary factor in reliability degradation of nanoscale designs. In this paper, we propose to exploit timing speculation for aging resilience, based on deploying Razor flip-flops. By formulating the problem based on Boolean satisfiability, we can determine the optimal deployment of Razor flip-flops, such that maximum degree of aging resilience can be achieved in a cost-effective manner. Experimental results show that more than 50% of aging-induced performance degradation can be recovered, while reducing the number of required Razor flip-flops by more than 3X, as compared to the case of naive Razor flip-flop deployment.