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| author | Heidary, Masoud Joardar, Biresh Kumar |
| author_facet | Heidary, Masoud Joardar, Biresh Kumar |
| contents | Hardware aging poses a significant challenge for integrated circuits (ICs), leading to performance degradation and eventual failure. In this work, we focus on the aging of arithmetic multipliers, which are a cornerstone of modern computing systems including in CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs, as well as AI accelerators like systolic arrays. In particular, AI workloads, which rely predominantly on multiplications, can accelerate Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) effects in multipliers. This paper presents a novel aging mitigation technique that leverages the signinvariance property of multiplication. By selectively applying 2s complement transformations to inputs, the method redistributes stress across transistors, reducing the effects of NBTI aging. The proposed method is also integrated into systolic arrays, a common AI accelerator, to demonstrate its efficiency in a high-throughput AI accelerator. Experimental evaluations using Cadence tools show better lifetime compared to natural aging (with no mitigation) baseline, while introducing negligible area and delay overheads. |
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| spellingShingle | Building Reliable Arithmetic Multipliers Under NBTI Aging and Process Variations Heidary, Masoud Joardar, Biresh Kumar Hardware Architecture Artificial Intelligence Hardware aging poses a significant challenge for integrated circuits (ICs), leading to performance degradation and eventual failure. In this work, we focus on the aging of arithmetic multipliers, which are a cornerstone of modern computing systems including in CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs, as well as AI accelerators like systolic arrays. In particular, AI workloads, which rely predominantly on multiplications, can accelerate Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) effects in multipliers. This paper presents a novel aging mitigation technique that leverages the signinvariance property of multiplication. By selectively applying 2s complement transformations to inputs, the method redistributes stress across transistors, reducing the effects of NBTI aging. The proposed method is also integrated into systolic arrays, a common AI accelerator, to demonstrate its efficiency in a high-throughput AI accelerator. Experimental evaluations using Cadence tools show better lifetime compared to natural aging (with no mitigation) baseline, while introducing negligible area and delay overheads. |
| title | Building Reliable Arithmetic Multipliers Under NBTI Aging and Process Variations |
| topic | Hardware Architecture Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18444 |