A Path Sensitization Technique for Testing of Switched Capacitor Circuits

  • Authors:
  • Sounil Biswas;Baquer Mazhari

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '03 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this work we describe a new method for testingof Switched Capacitor (SC) circuits based on modelingthe circuit as a charge transfer graph. Based on thedifferences between the graphs of good and faulty circuit, one or more paths are identified such that upontheir sensitization the difference in output voltage ofthe good and faulty circuits becomes appreciable. Thevalidity of the proposed technique is demonstrated usingthe examples of SC lossy integrator, voltage amplifierand biquad filter circuits. It is shown that the proposedtechnique is efficient in testing both atastrophic as wellas parametric faults in the apacitors.