Journal article
Test Strength: A Quality Metric for Transition Fault Tests in Full-Scan Circuits
IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems, Vol.19(10), pp.1907-1911
2011
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2010.2057459
Abstract
We define the strength of a test for transition faults based on the number of fault effects that can disappear without causing the test to lose the detection of target faults. The removal of fault effects represents the uncertainty created by pattern-dependent effects that can slow-down or speed-up signal-transitions, thus causing fault effects predicted by logic-level simulation to disappear. A test set that consists of higher-strength tests is less susceptible to these effects. We demonstrate that a transition fault test set with higher-strength tests also detects more path delay faults, which represent delay defects that were not targeted during test generation. © 2010 IEEE.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Test Strength: A Quality Metric for Transition Fault Tests in Full-Scan Circuits
- Creators
- Irith Pomeranz - Purdue University West LafayetteSudhakar M Reddy - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems, Vol.19(10), pp.1907-1911
- DOI
- 10.1109/TVLSI.2010.2057459
- ISSN
- 1063-8210
- eISSN
- 1557-9999
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2011
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984197282302771
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