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22nd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT 2007)
Spare Parts in Analog Circuits: a Filter Example
Rome, Italy
September 26-September 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2885-6
Erik Schuler, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Adão Júnior Antônio de Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Luigi Carro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Spare parts technique has been widely used in digital designs. As memory cells are more susceptible to defects and faults than logic cells, redundancy has been extensively used for enhancing defect and fault tolerance through repair by spare replacement. The technique also aims yield increase, and points to be a very good solution since density integration gets ever higher. In this work, we propose the use of spare parts to develop reliable analog circuits, thus increasing fault tolerance by choosing among many identical blocks, the best ones that will compose the circuit. An example using a mixed-signal FIR filter is presented, showing that the technique can easily be adapted to help increase yield of analog circuits, too.
Citation:
Erik Schuler, Adão Júnior Antônio de Souza, Luigi Carro, "Spare Parts in Analog Circuits: a Filter Example," dft, pp.321-330, 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT 2007), 2007
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