On wires holding a handful of electrons

Valeriu Beiu; Walid Ibrahim; Rafic Z. Makki

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04850-0_34

On wires holding a handful of electrons

Valeriu Beiu, Walid Ibrahim, Rafic Z. Makki

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Abstract

When analyzing reliability, wires have in most cases been ignored, with gates (and devices) taking the lion's share. With scaling, this "only computing fails" approach is not going to be accurate enough as communication (wires) will also start to err. Trying to do justice to wires, this paper details a statistical failure analysis of wires following on the few papers which have made wires' reliability their concern. We will use a classical particle-like probabilistic approach to enhance on the accuracy of wires' length-dependent probabilities of failure due to the discreetness of charge. Covering some of the intrinsic noises, such an approach leads to "lower bound"-like wire reliability estimates, as ignoring other intrinsic noises, as well as extrinsic noises, variations, and defects. These results should have implications for multi-/many-cores and networks-on-chip, as well as forward-looking investigations on emerging nano-architectures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nano-Net - 4th International ICST Conference, Nano-Net 2009, Proceedings
Pages	259-269
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04850-0_34
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	4th International ICST Conference on Nano-Net, Nano-Net 2009 - Lucerne, Switzerland Duration: Oct 18 2009 → Oct 20 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume	20 LNICST
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211

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Other	4th International ICST Conference on Nano-Net, Nano-Net 2009
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Lucerne
Period	10/18/09 → 10/20/09

Keywords

Communication
Interconnects (wires)
Nano-electronics
Noise (intrinsic)
Reliability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

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On wires holding a handful of electrons. / Beiu, Valeriu; Ibrahim, Walid; Makki, Rafic Z.
Nano-Net - 4th International ICST Conference, Nano-Net 2009, Proceedings. 2009. p. 259-269 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 20 LNICST).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Beiu, V, Ibrahim, W & Makki, RZ 2009, On wires holding a handful of electrons. in Nano-Net - 4th International ICST Conference, Nano-Net 2009, Proceedings. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 20 LNICST, pp. 259-269, 4th International ICST Conference on Nano-Net, Nano-Net 2009, Lucerne, Switzerland, 10/18/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04850-0_34

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