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Diagnosing Silicon Failures Based on Functional Test Patterns
Austin, Texas December 04-December 05
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MTV.2006.9Seventh International Workshop on Mic ...
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Chia-Chih Yen, Springsoft, Inc., Taiwan
Ten Lin, Springsoft, Inc., Taiwan
Hermes Lin, Springsoft, Inc., Taiwan
Kai Yang, Novas Software, Inc., USA
Tayung Liu, Novas Software, Inc., USA
Yu-Chin Hsu, Novas Software, Inc., USA
Identifying the root-cause of silicon failures is crucial for silicon debug and yield improvement. However, due to the low visibility of silicon data, root-cause identification tends to be a painful process. In this paper, we develop a systematic framework to diagnose silicon failures under functional test patterns. We propose a novel scan-dump approach to isolate critical cycles. Within the critical cycles, we apply logic-reasoning techniques including active-path-tracing (AP) and what-if (WI) analysis to automatically extract and rank failure candidates. We apply our framework on an industrial circuit and demonstrate the promising results.
Index Terms:
Silicon debug, design for debug, fault diagnosis
Citation:
Chia-Chih Yen, Ten Lin, Hermes Lin, Kai Yang, Tayung Liu, Yu-Chin Hsu, "Diagnosing Silicon Failures Based on Functional Test Patterns," mtv, pp.94-98, Seventh International Workshop on Microprocessor Test and Verification (MTV'06), 2006
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