Zhao, Y., Khursheed, S. and Al-Hashimi, B. (2011) Cost-Effective TSV Grouping for Yield Improvement of 3D-ICs. In: ATS 2011, November 2011, India. (In Press)
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Three-dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D-ICs) vertically stack multiple silicon dies to reduce overall wire length, power consumption, and allow integration of heterogeneous technologies. Through-silicon-vias (TSVs) which act as vertical links between layers pose challenges for 3D integration design. TSV defects can happen in fabrication process and bonding stage, which can reduce the yield and increase the cost. Recent work proposed the employment of redundant TSVs to improve the yield of 3D-ICs. This paper presents a redundant TSVs grouping technique, which partition regular and redundant TSVs into groups. For each group, a set of multiplexers are used to select good signal paths away from defective TSVs. We investigate the impact of grouping ratio (regular-to-redundant TSVs in one group) on trade-off between yield and hardware overhead. We also show probabilistic models for yield analysis under the influence of independent and clustering defect distributions. Simulation results show that for a given number of TSVs and TSV failure rate, careful selection of grouping ratios lead to achieving 100% yield at minimal hardware cost (number of multiplexers and redundant TSVs) in comparison to a design that does not exploit TSV grouping ratios.
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| Research Group: | Current ECS Groups > Electronic and Software Systems Old ECS Groups > Electronic Systems and Devices Group | ||||||
| Date: | 8 September 2011 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 22755 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2011 10:42 | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 08 Sep 2011 18:37 by Zhao, Yi | ||||||
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