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Reliability Analysis of Comparators

Reliability Analysis of Comparators
Reliability Analysis of Comparators
The lack of study on analogue circuits reliability is likely due to the migration of analogue circuits to their digital equivalents. There are a considerable numbers of important analogue circuits such as amplifiers and comparators used in sensors in portable devices, which may be investigated on its reliability. The small number of investigations on analogue circuit's reliability has initiated the interest in investigating the impact of single event transients or soft errors for analogue circuits. Sensitivity analysis was performed to determine the sensitive parts of the circuit. The sensitivity analysis have indicated that single event transient has lead to erroneous behavior of comparators and eventually cause
failure. The sensitive sub-circuits were later investigated on its dependence on variability of the design variables which covers both process and environment parameters. The variability analysis has proven that it does contribute towards increasing the sensitivity of the comparator to single event transients. Variability has also proven that it could increase the vulnerability of the least sensitive parts of the comparator.
Nawi, Illani Mohd
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Halak, Basel
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Zwolinski, M.
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Nawi, Illani Mohd
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Halak, Basel
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Zwolinski, M.
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Nawi, Illani Mohd, Halak, Basel and Zwolinski, M. (2015) Reliability Analysis of Comparators. DATE Workshop: Designing with Uncertainty - Opportunities & Challenges.

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Abstract

The lack of study on analogue circuits reliability is likely due to the migration of analogue circuits to their digital equivalents. There are a considerable numbers of important analogue circuits such as amplifiers and comparators used in sensors in portable devices, which may be investigated on its reliability. The small number of investigations on analogue circuit's reliability has initiated the interest in investigating the impact of single event transients or soft errors for analogue circuits. Sensitivity analysis was performed to determine the sensitive parts of the circuit. The sensitivity analysis have indicated that single event transient has lead to erroneous behavior of comparators and eventually cause
failure. The sensitive sub-circuits were later investigated on its dependence on variability of the design variables which covers both process and environment parameters. The variability analysis has proven that it does contribute towards increasing the sensitivity of the comparator to single event transients. Variability has also proven that it could increase the vulnerability of the least sensitive parts of the comparator.

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Published date: 2015
Venue - Dates: DATE Workshop: Designing with Uncertainty - Opportunities & Challenges, 2015-01-01
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 373508
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/373508
PURE UUID: d14d47a6-226b-4c7e-9f08-94052ec7ebe9
ORCID for Basel Halak: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-7226
ORCID for M. Zwolinski: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2230-625X

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Date deposited: 20 Jan 2015 13:34
Last modified: 10 Jan 2022 02:58

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Author: Illani Mohd Nawi
Author: Basel Halak ORCID iD
Author: M. Zwolinski ORCID iD

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