Static timing analysis of irreversible crosstalk noise pulse faults

In a large scale deep sub-micron VLSI design it is impractical to consider all possible aggressor-victim pairs as candidates for crosstalk coupling faults. Inevitably, a significant portion of these crosstalk pairs can be safely discarded from a target faultlist. In this paper, we have developed a static timing analysis technique to identify pairs which can be identified as redundant from crosstalk point of view. Experimental results on ISCAS´89 and ITC´99 benchmark circuits show that our algorithm achieves a reasonable level of crosstalk-induced pulse faultlist reduction without being unduly demanding on computational resources.