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Tenth International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI in Multimedia Applications
Delay Fault Coverage Enhancement Using Multiple Test Observation Times
Hyderabad, India
January 04-January 07
ISBN: 0-8186-7755-4
Wen-Ben Jone, National Chung-Cheng University
Yun-Pan Ho, National Chung-Cheng University
Sunil R. Das, National Chung-Cheng University
It has been demonstrated that delay fault coverage loss could be significant if improper propagation paths are used. This occurs when the delay test pair of a target propagation path cannot be effectively generated by an ATPG tool, or when stuck-at test patterns are used as transition (or gate) delay test patterns. In this work, an efficient method is proposed to reduce the amount of fault coverage loss by using multiple observation times. The basic idea is to offset the shorter propagation paths (really used) by tightening the observation times. Given a probability distribution of defect sizes and a set of slack differences, this method is able to locate several observation times that result in small fault coverage loss.
Index Terms:
Delay testing, Defect, Test observation times
Citation:
Wen-Ben Jone, Yun-Pan Ho, Sunil R. Das, "Delay Fault Coverage Enhancement Using Multiple Test Observation Times," vlsid, pp.106, Tenth International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI in Multimedia Applications, 1997
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