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ITC
2003
IEEE
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Fault Injection for Verifying Testability at the VHDL Level
This paper presents a technique to improve verification at the VHDL level of digital circuits by means of a specially designed fault injection block. The injection technique allow...
S. R. Seward, Parag K. Lala
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Burn-in Temperature Projections for Deep Sub-micron Technologies
Burn-in faces significant challenges in recent CMOS technologies. The self-generated heat of each IC in a burn-in environment contributes to larger currents that can lead to furth...
Oleg Semenov, Arman Vassighi, Manoj Sachdev, Ali K...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Screening VDSM Outliers using Nominal and Subthreshold Supply Voltage IDDQ
Very Deep Sub-Micron (VDSM) defects are resolved as Statistical Post-Processing™ (SPP) outliers of a new IDDQ screen. The screen applies an IDDQ pattern once to the Device Under...
Chris Schuermyer, Brady Benware, Kevin Cota, Rober...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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A Case Study of IR-Drop in Structured At-Speed Testing
At-speed test has become a requirement in IC technologies below 180 nm. Unfortunately, test mode switching activity and IR-drop present special challenges to the successful applic...
Jayashree Saxena, Kenneth M. Butler, Vinay B. Jaya...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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A High Precision IDDQ Measurement System With Improved Dynamic Load Regulation
This paper describes a system for performing high precision IDDQ measurement of CMOS ICs having a large peak current during operation. Although the measurement rate is at a low sp...
Nobuhiro Sato, Yoshihiro Hashimoto
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Critical Timing Analysis in Microprocessors Using Near-IR Laser Assisted Device Alteration (LADA)
A scalable laser-based timing analysis technique we call laser assisted device alteration (LADA) is introduced for the rapid isolation and analysis of defect-free performance limi...
Jeremy A. Rowlette, Travis M. Eiles
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Convolutional Compaction of Test Responses
This paper introduces a finite memory compactor called convolutional compactor that provides compaction ratios of test responses in excess of 100x even for a very small number of ...
Janusz Rajski, Jerzy Tyszer, Chen Wang, Sudhakar M...
ITC
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...