20th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT'05) On Generating Tests to Cover Diverse Worst-Case Timing Corners Monterey, California October 03-October 05 ISBN: 0-7695-2464-8
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DFTVS.2005.50
With process variations, timing behavior may vary from chip to chip. This paper investigates the problem of generating test patterns to cover potentially diverse worst-case timing corners. We focus the work on a specific problem formulation where the delay of a path can be affected by k aggressors. We demonstrate that the search space for such a problem can be quite complex. We study various methods to guide the test generation. We show that with different chips having different worst-case corners, it may not be affordable to search for the tests to expose all these corners. Experimental results are presented to explain the problem formulation, the test generation methods, and the limitation on what we can achieve for solving the problem.
Citation:
Leonard Lee, Sean Wu, Charles H-P Wen, Li-C. Wang, "On Generating Tests to Cover Diverse Worst-Case Timing Corners," dft, pp.415-426, 20th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||