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13th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'04)
Efficient Identification of Crosstalk Induced Slowdown Targets
Kenting, Taiwan
November 15-November 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2235-1
Melvin A. Breuer, University of Southern California
Sandeep K. Gupta, University of Southern California
Shahin Nazarian, University of Southern California
This paper deals with filter development in XIDEN, a "pruning" tool used to identify crosstalk targets that can potentially create Boolean errors. XIDEN employs multiple tools to adaptively estimate and/or extract electrical parameters required by its filters, and uses a novel approach to construct an efficient sequence of extractors and filters that are applied to a circuit. Thus, an initially enormous collection of targets can usually be reduced to a very small set of targets via a vectorless process. This process flow is much more efficient than using ATPG without pruning to identify targets that represent faults. The XIDEN framework, including the filters that capture the effect of crosstalk-induced pulses, has been previously presented. In this paper, our focus is on filters associated with crosstalk induced slowdown targets. To accurately compute timing information associated with signal transitions, we have enhanced the XIDEN framework with enhanced static timing analysis procedures that take into consideration single and multiple capacitive crosstalk couplings in a circuit.
Index Terms:
Crosstalk, extractors, filters, required time, slow-down effect, static timing analysis
Citation:
Melvin A. Breuer, Sandeep K. Gupta, Shahin Nazarian, "Efficient Identification of Crosstalk Induced Slowdown Targets," ats, pp.124-131, 13th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'04), 2004
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