Efficient Aging-Aware Failure Probability Estimation Using Augmented Reliability and Subset Simulation

Hiromitsu AWANO; Takashi SATO

doi:10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2807

Efficient Aging-Aware Failure Probability Estimation Using Augmented Reliability and Subset Simulation

Hiromitsu AWANO, Takashi SATO

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A circuit-aging simulation that efficiently calculates temporal change of rare circuit-failure probability is proposed. While conventional methods required a long computational time due to the necessity of conducting separate calculations of failure probability at each device age, the proposed Monte Carlo based method requires to run only a single set of simulation. By applying the augmented reliability and subset simulation framework, the change of failure probability along the lifetime of the device can be evaluated through the analysis of the Monte Carlo samples. Combined with the two-step sample generation technique, the proposed method reduces the computational time to about 1/6 of that of the conventional method while maintaining a sufficient estimation accuracy.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E100-A No.12 pp.2807-2815

Publication Date: 2017/12/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1337

DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2807

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)

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Hiromitsu AWANO
The University of Tokyo
Takashi SATO
Kyoto University

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failure probability calculation, NBTI, Monte Carlo, subset simulation, augmented reliability

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Hiromitsu AWANO, Takashi SATO, "Efficient Aging-Aware Failure Probability Estimation Using Augmented Reliability and Subset Simulation" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals, vol. E100-A, no. 12, pp. 2807-2815, December 2017, doi: 10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2807.
Abstract: A circuit-aging simulation that efficiently calculates temporal change of rare circuit-failure probability is proposed. While conventional methods required a long computational time due to the necessity of conducting separate calculations of failure probability at each device age, the proposed Monte Carlo based method requires to run only a single set of simulation. By applying the augmented reliability and subset simulation framework, the change of failure probability along the lifetime of the device can be evaluated through the analysis of the Monte Carlo samples. Combined with the two-step sample generation technique, the proposed method reduces the computational time to about 1/6 of that of the conventional method while maintaining a sufficient estimation accuracy.
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