An approach to the analysis and detection of crosstalk faults in digital VLSI circuits

The continuous reduction of the device size in integrated circuits and the increase in the switching rate cause parasitic capacitances between conducting layers to become dominant and cause logic errors in the circuits. Therefore, capacitive couplings can be considered as potential logic faults. Classical fault models do not cover this class of faults. This paper presents a logic level characterization and fault model for crosstalk faults. The authors also show how a fault list of such faults can be generated from the layout data, and give an automatic test pattern generation procedure for them