• DocumentCode
    1465915
  • Title

    A simulator for at-speed robust testing of path delay faults in combinational circuits

  • Author

    Hsu, Yuan-Chieh ; Gupta, Sandeep K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    11/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1312
  • Lastpage
    1318
  • Abstract
    Conditions are derived for robust testing of a path delay fault via a sequence of vectors applied at-speed. A simulator has been developed that uses the above conditions, along with the knowledge of paths that are robustly tested by the previous vectors, to determine the fault coverage obtained by such testing. The results demonstrate that the existing fault simulators can overestimate robust path delay fault coverage by 5-15%
  • Keywords
    combinational circuits; delays; digital simulation; logic testing; at-speed robust testing; combinational circuits; fault coverage; path delay faults; simulator; Application software; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Clocks; Combinational circuits; Delay; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Robustness;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/12.544489
  • Filename
    544489