Recycled IC detection through aging sensor
Recycled IC detection through aging sensor
In this paper, we propose a novel technique to detect recycled ICs via an on-chip, coarse-grained aging sensor, which can be applied to low-power circuits featuring power gating. The sensor detects the increase in the power-rail discharge time of power-gated circuits, when the circuit enters the sleep condition. Through HSPICE simulations, we prove that power network discharge time (τdV) is extremely sensitive to the age of the circuit. Indeed, after only 1 month of operation, τdV increases by more than 3X and, after 1 year, its increase exceeds 7X. Our technique enables the detection of recycled ICs with a very high confidence and is a considerably more sensitive indicator of an aged device that alternative solutions relying on fine-grained performance degradation sensors.
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Rossi, Daniele
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Tenentes, Vasileios
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Khursheed, Saqib
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Reddy, Sudhakar M.
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29 June 2018
Rossi, Daniele
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Tenentes, Vasileios
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Khursheed, Saqib
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Reddy, Sudhakar M.
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Rossi, Daniele, Tenentes, Vasileios, Khursheed, Saqib and Reddy, Sudhakar M.
(2018)
Recycled IC detection through aging sensor.
In Proceedings - 2018 23rd IEEE European Test Symposium, ETS 2018.
vol. 2018-May,
IEEE.
.
(doi:10.1109/ETS.2018.8400713).
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel technique to detect recycled ICs via an on-chip, coarse-grained aging sensor, which can be applied to low-power circuits featuring power gating. The sensor detects the increase in the power-rail discharge time of power-gated circuits, when the circuit enters the sleep condition. Through HSPICE simulations, we prove that power network discharge time (τdV) is extremely sensitive to the age of the circuit. Indeed, after only 1 month of operation, τdV increases by more than 3X and, after 1 year, its increase exceeds 7X. Our technique enables the detection of recycled ICs with a very high confidence and is a considerably more sensitive indicator of an aged device that alternative solutions relying on fine-grained performance degradation sensors.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 May 2018
Published date: 29 June 2018
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23rd IEEE European Test Symposium, ETS 2018, , Bremen, Germany, 2018-05-28 - 2018-06-01
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Daniele Rossi
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Vasileios Tenentes
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Saqib Khursheed
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Sudhakar M. Reddy
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