MOS tube parameter degradation circuit and MOS tube parameter degradation warning circuit

Abstract

The invention relates to a MOS tube parameter degradation circuit, which comprises a CMOS inverter, a stress applying circuit and a parameter measuring circuit. The CMOS inverter comprises a first PMOS tube and a first NMOS tube. The stress applying circuit becomes on under the control of a first mode-select signal. After the stress applying circuit receives a control signal, it exerts negative gate voltage bias stress or positive gate voltage bias stress on the first PMOS tube of the CMOS inverter. The parameter measuring circuit becomes on under the control of a second mode-select signal. The parameter measuring circuit receives an input signal and transmits the input signal to the input end of the CMOS inverter. The first mode-select signal and the second mode-select signal are compensation signals. With the invention, it is possible to make the MOS tube parameter degradation testing result more accurate. In addition, the invention also relates to a MOS tube parameter degradation early warning circuit, which can accurately analyze the influence of NBTI effect on PMOS tube component parameters.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of monitoring technology, in particular to a MOS tube parameter degradation circuit, a MOS tube parameter degradation early warning circuit, and another MOS tube parameter degradation early warning circuit. Background technique [0002] NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability, negative bias temperature instability) effect refers to the PMOS (positive channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) under high temperature and negative gate voltage bias stress, which refers to n-type substrate, p-channel, relying on holes Under the influence of the NBTI effect, the threshold voltage of the PMOS transistor of the device will drift, and the drain saturation current and transconductance will decrease, which will cause the device and even the entire The circuit fails. [0003] At present, high-performance CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) integrated circuits have been widely used in various electronic systems. Among t...

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[0004] At this stage, the research on the NBTI effect is mainly focused on the performance degradation of integrated circuits. Among them, in the monitoring circuit of the device parameter degradation characteristics caused by the NBTI effect, due to the fact that the circuit will be subjected to HCI (hot carrier injection, hot carrier injection) while the circuit is working ), NBTI and TDDB (time dependent dielectric breakdown, time-dependent dielectric breakdown) and other effects, therefore, the output signal output by the above circuit will be affected by various effects, and the output signal is not accurate

Due to the inaccuracy of the above output signal, it is also impossible to accurately analyze the degradation degree of the device parameters of the PMOS tube under the NBTI effect, thereby reducing the accuracy of the early warning signal

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