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Upper Bounding Fault Coverage by Structural Analysis and Signal Monitoring
Berkeley, California April 30-May 04
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2006.8924th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
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Vishwani D. Agrawal, Auburn University
Soumitra Bose, Intel Corporation
Vijay Gangaram, Intel Corporation
A new algorithm for identifying stuck faults in combinational circuits that cannot be detected by a given input sequence is presented. Other than pre and post-processing steps, certain signal conditions are monitored during logic simulation. These signal conditions are specified by an analysis of dominators and signal reconvergences in the circuit graph. After simulation, a post-processing step identifies faults that cannot be detected by the sequence. For combinational ISCAS benchmarks, the runtime overhead for the algorithm is found to be around 30-40% over that of a logic simulator. Experimental data show a substantial reduction of error in statistical estimates obtained by a stuck-fault coverage estimator when corrected for faults found by this algorithm as guaranteed to be undetected by the given sequence. An effective application of this technique is demonstrated for scan-based test point selection in an industrial scenario where circuit size and vector length prohibit the use of fault simulation.
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Vishwani D. Agrawal, Soumitra Bose, Vijay Gangaram, "Upper Bounding Fault Coverage by Structural Analysis and Signal Monitoring," vts, pp.88-93, 24th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2006
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