2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Timing Modeling of Flipflops Considering Aging Effects
verfasst von : Ning Chen, Bing Li, Ulf Schlichtmann
Erschienen in: Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Traditionally, the timing of a flipflop is modeled by a single constraint pair of setup and hold times. For timing verification of digital circuits both timing constraints should not be violated. Furthermore, the interdependency of these two quantities is exploited and multiple constraint pairs are taken as valid setup and hold times. STA Tools can be easily constructed by the propagation of arrival times. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of flipflop timing behavior and extend the timing modeling by explicitly building the functional relationship between clock-to-q delay and timing parameters at flipflop data input in order to break the timing boundaries and thus allow interdependency of different computation stages to be analyzed at gate level. Aging effects HCI and NBTI are also considered in the modeling to pave the way for aging analysis.