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Impact of Statistical Variability on FinFET Technology: From Device, Statistical Compact Modelling to Statistical Circuit Simulation

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New variability resilient device architectures will be required at the 22 nm CMOS technology node and beyond due to the ever-increasing statistical variability in traditional bulk MOSFETs. A TCAD-based Preliminary Design Kit (PDK) development strategy is present here for a 10 nm SOI FinFET technology, with reliable device statistical variability coming from the comprehensive 3D statistical device simulation and accurate statistical compact modelling. Results from the statistical simulation of a 6T SRAM cell demonstrate the advantages of FinFET technology.

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This work was supported in part by the European Union through the EP7 Integrated Project Trams.

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Asenov, A., Cheng, B., Brown, A.R., Wang, X. (2013). Impact of Statistical Variability on FinFET Technology: From Device, Statistical Compact Modelling to Statistical Circuit Simulation. In: van Roermund, A., Baschirotto, A., Steyaert, M. (eds) Nyquist AD Converters, Sensor Interfaces, and Robustness. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4587-6_15

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