21st IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
Path-Delay Fault Simulation for Circuits with Large Numbers of Paths for Very Large Test Sets
Napa Valley, California
April 27-May 01
ISBN: 0-7695-1924-5
We propose an exact non-enumerative path-delay fault simulation technique for combinational circuits using very large test sets. We focus on combinational circuits that contain very large numbers of path delay faults, for example, c6288 that has about 2 x1020 possible path-delay faults. Enumerative fault simulators simply cannot handle such circuits. Existing non-enumerative fault simulators work for small test sets only. The proposed method uses the mathematical principle of inclusion and exclusion and handles the large number of tests using a novel encoding technique.