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13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'07)
On-chip samplers for test and debug of asynchronous circuits
Berkeley, California
March 12-March 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2771-X
Frankie Liu, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park, CA
Ron Ho, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park, CA
Robert Drost, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park, CA
Scott Fairbanks, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park, CA
On-chip high-bandwidth sampling circuits supplement traditional test and debug techniques by non-invasively probing analog voltages for off-chip measurement. Existing circuits rely on sub-sampling techniques and thus require a synchronous clock. We extend these ideas to asynchronous circuits by combining an analog sampling head with a variable delay element and activating this circuit with an asynchronously triggered event. Repeated triggering events with different delays emulate sub-sampling. Simulations in a 180nm technology of SRAM timing margins and GasP control failure modes show this technique can probe asynchronous signals with high fidelity.
Citation:
Frankie Liu, Ron Ho, Robert Drost, Scott Fairbanks, "On-chip samplers for test and debug of asynchronous circuits," async, pp.153-162, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC'07), 2007
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