On-chip temperature and voltage measurement for field testing

This paper proposes a novel technique to measure temperature and voltage on-chip in field test. It consists of three types of NBTI-tolerant ring oscillator and counters constructed with a standard cell library. Temperature and voltage are estimated with high accuracy and in a short time.

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