Reliability aware logic synthesis through rewriting

  • Satish Grandhi
  • , Christian Spagnol
  • , Jiaoyan Chen
  • , Emanuel Popovici
  • , Sorin Cotafona

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Abstract

The low reliability of advanced CMOS devices has become a critical issue that has to be considered in the digital IC design flow. This paper introduces a design time methodology to address and improve the reliability of combinational circuits. The key idea is to employ local transformation rules, a methodology that were extensively used for area, delay, and power optimizations and demonstrate that they can reduce the error probability as well.We propose a set of local transformation rules that enhance the reliability without altering the circuit functionality. This functional rewriting capability, along with a circuit reliability assessment methodology developed in house, enables the integration of the reliability aware analysis and logic optimization algorithm that iteratively transforms the design in order to achieve higher circuit reliability. Experimental results based on simulations performed on MCNC benchmark circuits indicate that method can provide a reliability improvement of up to 7.5%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational System on Chip Conference
EditorsKaijian Shi, Thomas Buchner, Danella Zhao, Ramalingam Sridhar
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages274-279
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479933785
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Nov 2014
Event27th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2014 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 2 Sep 20145 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameInternational System on Chip Conference
ISSN (Print)2164-1676
ISSN (Electronic)2164-1706

Conference

Conference27th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, SOCC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period2/09/145/09/14

Keywords

  • ABC Tool
  • And-Invert Graphs (AIG)
  • Local Transformation Rules
  • Optimization
  • Reliability
  • Rewriting
  • Synthesis

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