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Reduction of number of paths to be tested in delay testing

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Li, HW; Li, ZC; Min, YH
刊名JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC TESTING-THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
出版日期2000-10-01
卷号16期号:5页码:477-485
关键词delay testing path sensitization linearly independent analytical delay model
ISSN号0923-8174
英文摘要Delay testing is important for high speed ICs. The main difficulty in delay testing comes from the huge number of paths and the large percentage of delay untestable paths. Therefore, it is critical to reduce the number of paths to be tested in delay testing. This paper presents two approaches to delay testing with significant reduction of number of paths to be tested, which provide high path delay fault coverage by testing a small number of paths. In the first approach, it is necessary to sample the primary output twice, one before and another after the transition for each test pair. The second approach is by means of accurate measurement of delays of very limited number of paths. In order to make this approach feasible, the paper also introduces a new concept of path sensitization, termed single-transition sensitization, to allow direct measurement of propagation delay of those paths. The paper presents how to select the very limited number of paths, termed sample paths, and how to generate test pairs and observation times for the sample paths for the first approach. On the other hand, it is noted for the second approach that under the analytical delay model (Proc. 9th International Conf. on VLSI Design, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1996, pp. 162-165), most of the paths are delay testable, which makes the accurate measurement approach feasible. In fact, it would be very difficult to select sample paths based on single path sensitization as it was done in (IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. c-29, No. 3, pp. 235-248, March 1980). The paper shows that the number of sample paths is linear to the number of gates in the circuit under test, despite exponential growth in the number of single paths.
WOS研究方向Engineering
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000089239600009
出版者KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
源URL[http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/13345]  
专题中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者Li, HW
作者单位Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, CAD Lab, Ctr Fault Tolerant Comp, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
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Li, HW,Li, ZC,Min, YH. Reduction of number of paths to be tested in delay testing[J]. JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC TESTING-THEORY AND APPLICATIONS,2000,16(5):477-485.
APA Li, HW,Li, ZC,&Min, YH.(2000).Reduction of number of paths to be tested in delay testing.JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC TESTING-THEORY AND APPLICATIONS,16(5),477-485.
MLA Li, HW,et al."Reduction of number of paths to be tested in delay testing".JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC TESTING-THEORY AND APPLICATIONS 16.5(2000):477-485.

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