Timing-only parametric defects are a major source of failures and test escapes in modern ICs. A DFT technique using compound domino logic gates with footer transistors uncovers these hard-to-detect defects with minimal performance and power overheads.
Citation:
Bhaskar Chatterjee, Manoj Sachdev, Ali Keshavarzi, "DFT for Delay Fault Testing of High-Performance Digital Circuits," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 248-258, May/June 2004, doi:10.1109/MDT.2004.10