Zhengfeng Huang , Xinyu Jiang , Linya Qiu , Yuxin Zhu , Can Liu , Huaguo Liang , Yiming Ouyang , Tianming Ni
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A QNU hardened latch design with low cost high stability and high performance
With the rapid development of integrated circuit technology, the sensitivity of latches to Multiple Node Upsets (MNU) induced by charge sharing has significantly increased, and this phenomenon has become a core issue affecting reliability in nanoscale integrated circuits. This paper proposes a high stability, high-performance, low-cost quadruple-node-upset (QNU) tolerant latch (DUAL-RDTL), which achieves complete QNU tolerance through the configuration of two DNU recovery latches (RDTL) and three C-elements at the output stage. HSPICE simulation results under 22 nm PTM technology demonstrate that compared with existing radiation hardened latches (QNUTL, SEI-QNUTL, 4NUHL), the DUAL-RDTL achieves average reductions of 44.69 % in power consumption, 7.09 % in delay, and 49.01 % in Power-Delay Product (PDP), while exhibiting the best stability against PVT (Process, Voltage, Temperature) variations.
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