The impact of high Vth drifts tail and real workloads on SRAM reliability

Based on experimental measurements at bitcell level combined with SPICE and Monte-Carlo simulations, an analytical method is presented to accurately predict fresh/aged Vmin distributions. The impact of BTI variability modeling and real workloads considerations is also deeply analyzed in this paper.

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