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11th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'02)
An Access Timing Measurement Unit of Embedded Memory
Guam, USA
November 18-November 20
ISBN: 0-7695-1825-7
Shu-Rong Lee, Nation Tsing-Hua University
Ming-Jun Hsiao, Nation Tsing-Hua University,
Tsin-Yuan Chang, Nation Tsing-Hua University,
As the deep sub-micron techniques evolving, embedded memories are dominating the yield, while the testing and measurement issues are more difficult due to access limitations. To solve the testing problem, BIST circuits are developed for testing the functionality embedded memory, but not for the AC parameters. Based on the dual-slope principle, a new memory access time measurement unit for embedded memories with separate time-to-voltage and voltage- to-time architecture is proposed in this paper to achieve at-speed measurement with 50ps resolution, where the measurement error is smaller than one LSB, and the linearity error is 1.19%. In conjunction with the March-based BIST circuit, the chip area is 262x92 μm 2 under 0.35μm 2P4M CMOS process.
Citation:
Shu-Rong Lee, Ming-Jun Hsiao, Tsin-Yuan Chang, "An Access Timing Measurement Unit of Embedded Memory," ats, pp.104, 11th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'02), 2002
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