IDDT Testing versus IDDQ Testing

  • Authors:
  • Yinghua Min;Zhongcheng Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Fault-Tolerant Computing, CAD Lab., Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100080. E-mail: min@mimi.cnc.ac.cn;Center for Fault-Tolerant Computing, CAD Lab., Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100080.

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

IDDQ testing has progressed to become a worldwide accepted test method to detect CMOS IC defects.However, it is noticed that observing theaverage transient current can lead to improvements in real defectcoverage, which is referred to IDDT testing. This letter presents a formal procedure to identifyIDDT testable faults, and togenerate input vector pairs to detect the faults based on Boolean process.It is interesting to note that those faults may notbe detected by IDDQ or other test methods, which shows the significance of IDDT testing.