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What's the problem?
July/August 2005 (vol. 22 no. 4)
pp. 392
Scott Davidson, Sun Microsystems
We IC people have been running scared our entire careers. We?ve worried that the next process node, the next tenfold increase in gate and transistor count, will break our tools and create a set of defects that we don?t know how to test. Delay test is finally mainstream, but besides this most designs use plain-vanilla full-scan test. But we have no reason to be scared; that is, until we get to a very different methodology--for example, nanotechnology, biotechnology, or quantum computing, where the right answer only comes out statistically.
Index Terms:
IC, delay test, full-scan test, design for testability, defects
Citation:
Scott Davidson, "What's the problem?," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 392, July/Aug. 2005, doi:10.1109/MDT.2005.98
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