DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS.
Digital integrated circuits (ICs) fabricated in advanced semiconductor processes are susceptible to single event effects from lightly ionizing particles (e.g., alpha particles, protons, and muons). Furthermore, these ICs exhibit complex responses due to interactions with these particles. Characteriz...
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ndltd-VANDERBILT-oai-VANDERBILTETD-etd-11302011-1233492013-01-08T17:16:52Z DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS. Black, Dolores Archuleta Electrical Engineering Digital integrated circuits (ICs) fabricated in advanced semiconductor processes are susceptible to single event effects from lightly ionizing particles (e.g., alpha particles, protons, and muons). Furthermore, these ICs exhibit complex responses due to interactions with these particles. Characterizing the complex responses requires a translation across several layers of abstraction typically used to describe the IC (e.g., device, circuit, system). This dissertation presents a single integrated tool flow from radiation transport to IC response in order to provide simulations and/or predictions of the complex response for lightly ionizing particles. The tool flow can be used for simulations and/or predictions of the overall IC response through a framework that couples radiation transport, circuit-level simulation, and IC-level simulation. This framework tested the generation, propagation, and capture of particle strikes in the IBM 90-nm CMOS process for a subset of combinational cells that compose an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). The research led to an increased understanding of appropriate techniques and available tools to model transient generation, propagation, and capture from energy deposition to IC response for the direct ionization caused by particles that have a linear energy transfer for lightly-ionizing environments. Dr. William H. Robinson Dr. Robert A. Reed Dr. Gautam Biswas Dr. Marcus H. Mendenhall Dr. Ronald D. Schrimpf VANDERBILT 2011-12-05 text application/pdf http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-11302011-123349/ http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-11302011-123349/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to Vanderbilt University or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report. |
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Digital integrated circuits (ICs) fabricated in advanced semiconductor processes are susceptible to single event effects from lightly ionizing particles (e.g., alpha particles, protons, and muons). Furthermore, these ICs exhibit complex responses due to interactions with these particles. Characterizing the complex responses requires a translation across several layers of abstraction typically used to describe the IC (e.g., device, circuit, system). This dissertation presents a single integrated tool flow from radiation transport to IC response in order to provide simulations and/or predictions of the complex response for lightly ionizing particles. The tool flow can be used for simulations and/or predictions of the overall IC response through a framework that couples radiation transport, circuit-level simulation, and IC-level simulation. This framework tested the generation, propagation, and capture of particle strikes in the IBM 90-nm CMOS process for a subset of combinational cells that compose an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). The research led to an increased understanding of appropriate techniques and available tools to model transient generation, propagation, and capture from energy deposition to IC response for the direct ionization caused by particles that have a linear energy transfer for lightly-ionizing environments. |
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Dr. William H. Robinson |
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Dr. William H. Robinson Black, Dolores Archuleta |
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DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS. |
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DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS. |
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DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS. |
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DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS. |
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DIRECT IONIZATION-INDUCED TRANSIENT FAULT ANALYSIS FOR COMBINATIONAL LOGIC AND SEQUENTIAL CAPTURE IN DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR LIGHTLY-IONIZING ENVIRONMENTS. |
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direct ionization-induced transient fault analysis for combinational logic and sequential capture in digital integrated circuits for lightly-ionizing environments. |
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