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The importance of long term reliability in MOS VLSI circuits is becoming an important subject because of the increasing densities of VLSI chips. Hot carrier effects cause noncatastrophic failures which develop gradually over time and change the circuit performance. The Weibull distribution is often used to describe the life times of parts and widely applied to characterize the breakdown statistics...
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