An on-chip delay measurement technique using signature registers for small-delay defect detection

  • Authors:
  • Kentaroh Katoh;Kazuteru Namba;Hideo Ito

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical Engineering Department, Tsuruoka National College of Technology, Tsuruoka, Japan and Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan;Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan;Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a delay measurement technique using signature analysis, and a scan design for the proposed delay measurement technique to detect small-delay defects. The proposed measurement technique measures the delay of the explicitly sensitized paths with the resolution of the on-chip variable clock generator. The proposed scan design realizes complete on-chip delay measurement in short measurement time using the proposed delay measurement technique and extra latches for storing the test vectors. The evaluation with Rohm 0.18-µm process shows that the measurement time is 67.8% reduced compared with that of the delay measurement with standard scan design on average. The area overhead is 23.4% larger than that of the delay measurement architecture using standard scan design, and the difference of the area overhead between enhanced scan design and the proposed method is 7.4% on average. The data volume is 2.2 times of that of test set for normal testing on average.