Aging-based leakage energy reduction method and system

摘要

A technique of reducing leakage energy associated with a post-silicon target circuit is generally described herein. One example method includes purposefully aging a plurality of gates in the target circuit based on a targeted metric including a timing constraint associated with the target circuit.

主权项

1. A method to reduce leakage energy associated with a post-silicon target circuit, the method comprising:
selecting a plurality of gates in the target circuit to be aged; determining an extent to which to age the selected plurality of gates; identifying a first set of gates and a second set of gates of the selected plurality of gates that will be aged differently based on a targeted metric including a timing constraint associated with the target circuit; based on the targeted metric, aging, to the determined extent, the first set of gates; and based on the targeted metric, aging, to less than the determined extent, the second set of gates.