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Path Delay Fault Simulation on Large Industrial Designs
Berkeley, California April 30-May 04
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2006.5524th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
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Suriyaprakash Natarajan, Intel Corporation
Srinivas Patil, Intel Corporation
Sreejit Chakravarty, Intel Corporation
Path delay fault simulation performance on multi-cycle delay paths common in industrial designs is discussed using paths from a large block in a microprocessor and a functional test vector suite. We profile fault simulation performance using a novel multi-cycle path delay fault simulator. Our experiments show that path delay fault simulation run-time grows linearly with path list size. Contrary to commonly held notion that path delay fault simulation is more expensive than stuck-at fault simulation, our experiments show that performance of path delay fault grading is comparable to that of stuck-at fault grading. Finally, we propose and evaluate a heuristic that can improve path delay fault simulation performance and also aid in selection of tests for speed-limiting paths.
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Suriyaprakash Natarajan, Srinivas Patil, Sreejit Chakravarty, "Path Delay Fault Simulation on Large Industrial Designs," vts, pp.16-23, 24th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2006
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