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| Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng, Angela Krstic, Hsi-Chuan Chen, "Generation of High Quality Tests for Robustly Untestable Path Delay Faults," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1379-1392, December, 1996. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/12.545968, author = {Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng and Angela Krstic and Hsi-Chuan Chen}, title = {Generation of High Quality Tests for Robustly Untestable Path Delay Faults}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers}, volume = {45}, number = {12}, issn = {0018-9340}, year = {1996}, pages = {1379-1392}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.545968}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Computers TI - Generation of High Quality Tests for Robustly Untestable Path Delay Faults IS - 12 SN - 0018-9340 SP1379 EP1392 EPD - 1379-1392 A1 - Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng, A1 - Angela Krstic, A1 - Hsi-Chuan Chen, PY - 1996 KW - VLSI testing KW - delay testing KW - automatic test generation KW - path delay faults KW - timing defects KW - nonrobust KW - robust. VL - 45 JA - IEEE Transactions on Computers ER - | |||
Abstract—In many designs a large portion of path delay faults is not robustly testable. In this paper, we investigate testing strategies for robustly untestable faults. We show that the quality of nonrobust tests may be very poor in detecting small defects caused by manufacturing process variation. We demonstrate that better quality nonrobust tests can be obtained by including timing information into the process of test generation. A good nonrobust test can tolerate larger timing variations on the off-inputs. We also show that not all nonrobustly untestable path delay faults may be ignored in high quality delay testing.
In this paper, we present algorithms for generating high quality nonrobust and functional sensitizable tests. We also devise an algorithm for generating tests for validatable nonrobust faults which have a high quality in detecting defects but are hard to be generated automatically. Our experimental results show that the quality of delay testing increases if validatable and high quality nonrobust tests, as well as tests for functional sensitizable path delay faults are included.
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