On-Chip Delay Degradation Measurement for Aging Compensation

As technology scales down, it has become one of the most critical issues in aging-tolerant nanoscale MOSFET circuit design to monitor the performance degradation of the circuits under aging stress conditions such as Negative-Bias-Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Hot-Carrier-Injection (HCI). Hence, this paper proposes a novel on-chip circuit to measure the delay degradation of stressed MOSFET digital circuits and digitalize the degradation for aging compensation. A 0.11 mu m CMOS technology has been used to implement and evaluate the proposed circuits.