| Scope and method of study. System-on-Chip (SoC) is one of the most emerging Ultra-Large-Scale-Integration (ULSI) technologies in which numerous predesigned and verified system components, commonly known as cores, can be integrated seamlessly into a single chip. Because of the highly dense, heterogeneous, and monolithic structure of the integration, the reliability is considered as one of the most crucial issues for the success of SoC technology. Reliability modeling and optimization techniques have been applied extensively.; Findings and conclusions. The purpose of this study was to propose reliability-driven design and optimization techniques for the trusted embedded core-based SoCs. Among those SoC reliability issues, this study has been focused mainly on four important ones: yield and reliability assurance for embedded memory core, redundancy balancing for embedded memory cores, connectivity-based reconfigurable SoC repair, and HW/SW co-reliability assurance of multi-processor SoCs. Numerous reliability enhancing techniques are proposed and validated, and extensive parametric simulation results are shown also. |
