Ninth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Transistor Stuck-Open Fault Detection in Multilevel CMOS Circuits
Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 04-March 06
ISBN: 0-7695-0104-4
The necessary and sufficient conditions for detecting transistor stuck-open faults in arbitrary multi-level CMOS circuits are shown. A method for representing a two-pattern test for detecting a single stuck-open fault using only one cube is presented. The relationship between the D-algorithm and the conditions for detecting transistor stuck-open faults in CMOS circuits is provided. The application of the proposed approach in robust test generation for transistor stuck-open faults in a number of benchmark circuits is demonstrated. The fault coverage achieved is as good as or better than those reported using existing techniques.
Index Terms:
Transistor stuck-open fault, two-pattern test, test pattern generation, multi-level CMOS circuits testing, robust CMOS testing.
Citation:
Mostafa Abd-El-Barr, Yanging Xu, Carl McCrosky, "Transistor Stuck-Open Fault Detection in Multilevel CMOS Circuits," glsvlsi, pp.388, Ninth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 1999