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Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05)
Built-In-Self-Testing Techniques for Programmable Capacitor Arrays
San Jose, California
March 21-March 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2301-3
Amit Laknaur, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
Haibo Wang, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
Programmable capacitor arrays (PCAs) are frequently used in reconfigurable analog circuits. Since PCAs can be programmed to numerous values, testing PCAs by exhaustively examining all PCA values can lead to lengthy testing processes. To address this problem, we present an efficient built-in-self-testing (BIST) method for PCAs used in reconfigurable analog circuits. The proposed BIST method takes advantage of existing programmable resources and, hence, introduces very small hardware overhead. Additionally, we present two simple and effective capacitor comparison techniques for implementing the proposed BIST method. The accuracy of the proposed circuit techniques is investigated and closed-form equations are derived for estimating comparison accuracy that can be achieved by the proposed techniques. Finally, circuit simulations are performed to validate the proposed techniques.
Citation:
Amit Laknaur, Haibo Wang, "Built-In-Self-Testing Techniques for Programmable Capacitor Arrays," isqed, pp.434-439, Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), 2005
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