Resistive Bridging Fault Simulation of Industrial Circuits

Author

Engelke, Piet ; Polian, Ilia ; Schloeffel, Juergen ; Becker, Bernd

Author_Institution

Inst. for Comput. Scienc, Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Freiburg

fYear

2008

fDate

10-14 March 2008

Firstpage

628

Lastpage

633

Abstract

We report the successful application of a resistive bridging fault (RBF) simulator to industrial benchmark circuits. Despite the slowdown due to the consideration of the sophisticated RBF model, the run times of the simulator were within an order of magnitude of the run times for pattern-parallel complete-circuit stuck-at fault simulation. Industrial-size circuits, including a multi-million-gates design, could be simulated in reasonable time despite a significantly higher number of faults to be simulated compared with stuck-at fault simulation.

Keywords

benchmark testing; bridge circuits; fault simulation; logic design; logic gates; logic testing; industrial circuits; multimillion-gate design; pattern-parallel complete-circuit stuck-at fault simulation; resistive bridging fault simulation; Automatic test pattern generation; Automatic testing; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Computer industry; Computer simulation; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Resistive bridging faults; bridging fault simulation; case study;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2008. DATE '08

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-3-9810801-3-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-9810801-4-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DATE.2008.4484747

Filename

4484747