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2003
IEEE
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BIST for Deep Submicron ASIC Memories with High Performance Application
Today’s ASIC designs consist of more memory in terms of both area and number of instances. The shrinking of geometries has an even greater effect upon memories due to their tigh...
Theo J. Powell, Wu-Tung Cheng, Joseph Rayhawk, Ome...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Key Impediments to DFT-Focused Test and How to Overcome Them
In a carefully structured study spanning several months, the authors visited numerous companies focused on Design For Test methodologies in SoC Test, Characterization, and Failure...
Kenneth E. Posse, Geir Eide
ITC
2003
IEEE
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EEPROM Memory: Threshold Voltage Built In Self Diagnosis
Knowing, that the threshold voltage of the EEPROM memory cells is a key parameter to determine the overall performance of the memory, a build in structure to extract this informat...
Jean Michel Portal, Hassen Aziza, Didier Né...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Industrial Experience with Adoption of EDT for Low-Cost Test without Concessions
This paper discusses the adoption of Embedded Deterministic Test (EDT) at Infineon Technologies as a means to reduce the cost of manufacturing test without compromising test quali...
Frank Poehl, Matthias Beck, Ralf Arnold, Peter Muh...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Automatic Diagnostic Program Generation for Mixed Signal Load Board
This paper describes a method for automatically generating diagnostic programs for mixed-signal load boards. This procedure employs a statistical method of computing Mahalanobis D...
Kranthi K. Pinjala, Bruce C. Kim, Pramodchandran N...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Novel Transient Fault Hardened Static Latch
In this paper we analyze the effects of transient faults (TFs) affecting the internal nodes of conventional latch structures and we propose a new latch design which allows to tole...
Martin Omaña, Daniele Rossi, Cecilia Metra
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Hysteresis of Intrinsic IDDQ Currents
: Empirical analyses of the IDDQ signatures of 0.18 µm devices indicate that IDDQ currents exhibit hysteresis. A newly proposed test method, SPIRIT (Single Pattern Iteration IDDQ ...
Yukio Okuda, Nobuyuki Furukawa
ITC
2003
IEEE
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MEMS Design And Verification
The long term impact of MEMS technology will be in its ability to integrate novel sensing and actuation functionality on traditional computing and communication devices enabling t...
Tamal Mukherjee
ITC
2003
IEEE
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On-chip Compression of Output Responses with Unknown Values Using LFSR Reseeding
We propose a procedure for designing an LFSRbased circuit for masking of unknown output values that appear in the output response of a circuit tested using LBIST. The procedure is...
Masao Naruse, Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy, S...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Cost-Effective Approach for Reducing Soft Error Failure Rate in Logic Circuits
In this paper, a new paradigm for designing logic circuits with concurrent error detection (CED) is described. The key idea is to exploit the asymmetric soft error susceptibility ...
Kartik Mohanram, Nur A. Touba