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.
Author(s): David Wolpert, Paul Ampadu (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 174
Tags: Circuits and Systems; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Nanotechnology and Microengineering
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
The Role of Temperature in Electronic Design....Pages 1-13
Temperature Effects in Semiconductors....Pages 15-33
Sensing Temperature Dependence....Pages 35-61
Variation-Tolerant Adaptive Voltage Systems....Pages 63-92
Controlling the Temperature Dependence....Pages 93-123
Exploiting Temperature Dependence in Low-Swing Interconnect Links....Pages 125-140
Avoiding Temperature-Induced Errors in On-Chip Interconnects....Pages 141-167
Future Work and Open Problems....Pages 169-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-174
