9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (isqed 2008)
Timing-Aware Multiple-Delay-Fault Diagnosis
March 17-March 19
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3117-5
With feature sizes steadily shrinking, manufacturing defects and parameter variations often cause design timing failures. It is essential that these errors be correctly and quickly diagnosed. In this paper, we analyze the multiple-delay fault diagnosis problem and propose a novel, simulation-based approach to solve it. We enhance the diagnostic resolution by processing failure logs at various slower-than-nominal clock frequencies. We experimentally determined our diagnosis algorithm’s sensitivity to delay variations.
Index Terms:
ATPG, delay-testing, diagnosis, defect-diagnosis, DFT
Citation:
Vishal J. Mehta, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Kun-Han Tsai, Janusz Rajski, "Timing-Aware Multiple-Delay-Fault Diagnosis," isqed, pp.246-253, 9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (isqed 2008), 2008