9th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium
Accurate and Efficient Analysis of Single Event Transients in VLSI Circuits
Kos Island, Greece
July 07-July 09
ISBN: 0-7695-1968-7
Single event transients (SETs) on combinational gates are becoming an issue in deep sub-micron technologies, thus efficient and accurate techniques for assessing their impact are strongly required. This paper presents a new technique that embeds time-related information in the topology of the analyzed circuit, allowing evaluating the effects of SETs via zero-delay simulation instead of timed simulation. The analysis of complex designs becomes thus possible at a very limited cost in terms of CPU time. The paper reports results showing how the proposed method can be effectively used to analyze complex designs.