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2000
IEEE
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On Testing the Path Delay Faults of a Microprocessor Using its Instruction Set
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...
Wei-Cheng Lai, Angela Krstic, Kwang-Ting Cheng
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2000
IEEE
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A Low-Speed BIST Framework for High-Performance Circuit Testing
Testing of high performance integrated circuits is becoming increasingly a challenging task owing to high clock frequencies. Often testers are not able to test such devices due to...
Hans G. Kerkhoff, Mansour Shashaani, Manoj Sachdev
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2000
IEEE
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Functional Memory Faults: A Formal Notation and a Taxonomy
Abstract: This paper presents a notation for describing functional fault models, which may occur in memory devices. Using this notation, the space of all possible memory faults has...
A. J. van de Goor, Zaid Al-Ars
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2000
IEEE
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High-Level Observability for Effective High-Level ATPG
This paper focuses on observability, one of the open issues in High-Level test generation. Three different approximate metrics for taking observability into account during RT-leve...
Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squill...
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2000
IEEE
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Detection of CMOS Defects under Variable Processing Conditions
Transient Signal Analysis is a digital device testing method that is based on the analysis of voltage transients at multiple test points. In this paper, the power supply transient...
Amy Germida, James F. Plusquellic
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2000
IEEE
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DEFUSE: A Deterministic Functional Self-Test Methodology for Processors
1 At-speed testing is becoming increasingly difficult with external testers as the speed of microprocessors approaches the GHz range. One solution to this problem is built-in self-...
Li Chen, Sujit Dey
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2000
IEEE
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Hidden Markov and Independence Models with Patterns for Sequential BIST
We propose a novel BIST technique for non-scan sequential circuits which does not modify the circuit under test. It uses a learning algorithm to build a hardware test sequence gen...
Laurent Bréhélin, Olivier Gascuel, G...
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2000
IEEE
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Thermal Testing: Fault Location Strategies
Josep Altet, Antonio Rubio, E. Schaub, Stefan Dilh...
VTS
2000
IEEE
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ESIM: A Multimodel Design Error and Fault Simulator for Logic Circuits
ESIM is a simulation tool that integrates logic fault and design error simulation for logic circuits. It targets several design error and fault models, and uses a novel mix of sim...
Hussain Al-Asaad, John P. Hayes