Thermal Reliability Analysis for 7-nm FinFET Based Positive Edge Triggered TSPC Flip-Flop for Future IoT and AI Applications
摘要
For system-on-a-chip designers, reducing the power consumption and ensuring high speed of IoT devices and AI applications is a top priority. This paper presents a positive edge-triggered true single-phase clock (PET-TSPC) D flip-flop (DFF) implemented using a 7-nm FinFET-based process, optimized for a wide range of supply voltages and operating temperatures. A comparative analysis with conventional 22-nm CMOS technology and 7-nm FinFET reveals the occurrence of the temperature inversion effect (TIE), a critical phenomenon at advanced nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed PET-TSPC-FF achieves a 59.2% reduction in power consumption and a 17.6% reduction in delay at 0.7 V, compared to state-of-the-art FFs. Additionally, it achieves the lowest power-delay product (PDP) of 0.38 fJ at 0.7 V. For a constant VDD of 0.8 V, DFF adopting 22-nm CMOS, power consumption increases from 3.57 μW to 4.03 μW as temperature drops from 107° to 27 °C, whereas DFF adopting 7-nm FinFET, it decreases from 3.1 μW to 1.6 μW. These results highlight how well the designed flip-flop performs in terms of energy efficiency and thermal robustness for next-generation AI and IoT hardware platforms.