26th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008)
A General Failure Candidate Ranking Framework for Silicon Debug
April 27-May 01
ISBN: 0-7695-3123-7
In advanced nanometer designs, various electrical effects could introduce unexpected circuit delays and lead to performance failures. Although electrically induced timing errors could be detected by applying delay testing, tools for debugging this type of error are still not widely adopted. We propose a general silicon debug framework which focuses on diagnosing silicon electrical bugs under functional test patterns. In this paper, we present FCR (Failure Candidate Ranker) which is one of the key compo-nents of the proposed framework. FCR employs various reasoning techniques including backward active/trigger tracing and forward symptom matching. We’ll apply FCR to several industrial cases and show the effectiveness of identifying the error sources.
Index Terms:
Silicon Debug
Citation:
Chia-Chih Yen, Ten Lin, Hermes Lin, Kai Yang, Tayung Liu, Yu-Chin Hsu, "A General Failure Candidate Ranking Framework for Silicon Debug," vts, pp.352-358, 26th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008), 2008