S. Spinner, Jie Jiang, I. Polian, P. Engelke, B. Becker
{"title":"Simulating Open-Via Defects","authors":"S. Spinner, Jie Jiang, I. Polian, P. Engelke, B. Becker","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.72","url":null,"abstract":"Open-via defects are a major systematic failure mechanism in nanoscale manufacturing processes. We present a flow for simulating open-via defects. Electrical parameters are extracted from the layout and technology data and represented in a way which allows efficient simulation on gate level. The simulator takes oscillation caused by open-via defects into account and quantifies its impact on defect coverage. The flow can be employed for manufacturing test as well as for defect diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122029879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Efficient Peak Power Reduction Technique for Scan Testing","authors":"Meng-Fan Wu, Kai-Shun Hu, Jiun-Lang Huang","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.54","url":null,"abstract":"Power management is posing serious challenges for scan-based testing. In this paper, we propose a low power test pattern generation technique which minimizes the peak power consumption associated with the scan and capture operations. Given a set of fully specified test patterns, the proposed technique iteratively replaces the high power consumption patterns with low power ones generated by a PODEM-based low power ATPG. The proposed technique has been validated using ISCAS89 benchmark circuits. Compared to a commercial ATPG using high merge ratio and random-fill options, the proposed technique reduces the peak shift and capture power by 27.3% and 19.6%, respectively, and the average power by 49.9%.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128597881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the noise floor affects the production yield","authors":"A. Maeda","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.116","url":null,"abstract":"The noise floor is the noise distributed all of the frequency range and it does not include the spurious. At the test system, GNDs, power supplies and test modules have their own noise floor and the total sum of these noise floors affects the device test. The GND noise floor is hard to deal with because it is common mode noise and it is not easy to remove.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127986050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sying-Jyan Wang, Xin-Long Li, Katherine Shu-Min Li
{"title":"Layout-Aware Multi-Layer Multi-Level Scan Tree Synthesis","authors":"Sying-Jyan Wang, Xin-Long Li, Katherine Shu-Min Li","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.37","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a layout-aware scan tree synthesis methodology. Scan tree can greatly reduce test data volume, which is very desirable in SOC testing. However, previous researches on scan tree synthesis have not considered routing issues in physical design, which may create a tree with excessively long routing path. In this paper we present a multi-layer multi-level scan tree synthesis method, in which both data compression and routing length are taken into account. Experimental results show that the proposed test method achieves high compression rate with limited routing overhead.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122244586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the Fault Coverage of Functional Test Sequences Without Fault Simulation","authors":"I. Pomeranz, Praveen Parvathala, S. Patil","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.18","url":null,"abstract":"Functional test sequences were shown to detect defects that are not detected by structural tests. They also help in avoiding overtesting. However, fault simulation to compute the stuck-at fault coverage of functional test sequences can be time consuming especially in applications where a large number of test sequences need to be evaluated and compared. To obtain fast yet accurate estimates of the stuck-at fault coverages of functional test sequences, we describe a fault coverage metric based only on logic simulation of the gate level circuit. The metric is based on the set of states that the circuit traverses under the test sequence. We define several versions of the metric suitable for different applications. We present experimental results demonstrating the effectiveness of the metric for ranking of test sequences based on their fault coverage.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126682670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Reconfigurable Broadcast Scan Compression Scheme Using Relaxation Based Test Vector Decompos","authors":"A. El-Maleh, M. Ali, Ahmad A. Al-Yamani","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.41","url":null,"abstract":"An effective reconfigurable broadcast scan compression scheme that employs test set partitioning and relaxation-based test vector decomposition is proposed. Given a constraint on the number of tester channels, the technique classifies the test set into acceptable and bottleneck vectors. The bottleneck vectors are then decomposed into a set of vectors that meet the given constraint. The acceptable and decomposed test vectors are partitioned into the smallest number of partitions while satisfying the tester channels constraint to reduce the decompressor area. Thus, the technique by construction satisfies a given tester channels constraint at the expense of increased test vector count and number of partitions, offering a tradeoff between test compression, test application time and test decompression circuitry area. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique achieves better compression ratios compared to other test compression techniques.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116264124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Higami, K. Saluja, Hiroshi Takahashi, Shin-ya Kobayashi, Y. Takamatsu
{"title":"Test Generation for Transistor Shorts using Stuck-at Fault Simulator and Test Generator","authors":"Y. Higami, K. Saluja, Hiroshi Takahashi, Shin-ya Kobayashi, Y. Takamatsu","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.64","url":null,"abstract":"Test generation methods for transistor shorts using logic test environment are proposed. The fault models used are strong shorts and weak shorts, introduced in our earlier work. Our methodology consists of fault simulation, test generation and test compaction using gate-level tools to detect transistor faults but without resorting to use of transistor-level tools.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121039146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Accurate Jitter Estimation Technique for Efficient High Speed I/O Testing","authors":"Dongwoo Hong, K. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.77","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a technique for estimating total jitter that, along with a loopback-based margining test, can be applied to test high speed serial interfaces. We first present the limitations of the existing estimation method, which is based on the dual-Dirac model. The accuracy of the existing method is extremely sensitive to the choice of the fitting region and the ratio of deterministic jitter to random jitter. Then, we propose a high-order polynomial fitting technique and demonstrate its value for a more efficient and accurate total jitter estimation at a very low Bit-Error-Rate level. The estimation accuracy is also analyzed with respect to different numbers of measurement points for fitting. This analysis shows that only a very small number (i.e., 4) of measurement points is needed for achieving accurate estimation.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116525390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mining Sequential Constraints for Pseudo-Functional Testing","authors":"Weixin Wu, M. Hsiao","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.66","url":null,"abstract":"Using DFT methods such as scan can improve testability and increase fault coverage. However, scan tests may scan in illegal or unreachable states during test application, which may result in incidental detection of functional untestable delay faults during the scan test. This paper presents novel mining techniques for fast top-down functional constraint extraction. The extracted functional constraints capture illegal states through internal signal relations. Imposing these relations as functional constraints to a commercial ATPG tool allows for the generation of effective pseudo-functional tests. We analyze its impact on minimizing the over-testing problem of the scan- based circuits. The experimental results on transition faults and path delay faults reveal that the proposed method produces a small fraction, yet extremely powerful functional constraints effective for constraining the state space.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127575270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Programmable Logic BIST for At-speed Test","authors":"Yu Huang, X. Lin","doi":"10.1109/ATS.2007.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ATS.2007.83","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel programmable logic BIST controller that can facilitate at-speed test for the design with multiple clock domains and multiple clock frequencies. Moreover, a static analysis method is also proposed to optimize the BIST test pattern allocation for testing the timing faults in different intra/inter clock domains when the maximum number of applied BIST test patterns is specified. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method on achieving higher test coverage than the method with test patterns evenly distributed among different test sessions.","PeriodicalId":289969,"journal":{"name":"16th Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2007)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128009983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}