Robustheit nanoelektronischer Schaltungen und Systeme

Continuing miniaturisation makes nanoelectronic circuits and systems increasingly susceptible against external and intrinsic parasitic effects and ageing processes. Applications such as automotive electronics, which make high demands on systems’ immunity and longevity, impose the need to design in robustness to integrated circuits and systems. To support this with appropriate electronic design automation tools, the intuitively used term robustness has to be defined more formally and in a quantifiable way. We present a model of robustness and a series of robustness metrics as a contribution to the ongoing discussion.