The delay fault test pattern set generated by timing unaware commercial ATPG tools mostly affects very short paths, thereby increasing the escape chance of smaller delay defects. ...
The clock rate of modern chips is still increasing and at the same time the gate size decreases. As a result, already slight variations during the production process may cause a f...
We describe a method for on-chip generation of weighted test sequences for synchronous sequential circuits. For combinational circuits, three weights, 0, 0.5 and 1, are sufficien...
1 This paper addresses the problem of testing path delay faults in a microprocessor using instructions. It is observed that a structurally testable path (i.e., a path testable thro...
Software-based self-testing is a promising approach for the testing of processor cores which are embedded inside a System-on-a-Chip (SoC), as it can apply test vectors in function...
Virendra Singh, Michiko Inoue, Kewal K. Saluja, Hi...