Current Ratios: A Self-Scaling Technique for Production IDDQ Testing

  • Authors:
  • Peter Maxwell;Pete OíNeill;Rob Aitken;Roland Dudley;Neal Jaarsma;Minh Quac

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The use of a single pass/fail threshold for IDDQtesting is unworkable as chip background currentsincrease to the point where they exceed many defectcurrents. This paper describes a method of usingìcurrent signaturesî which uses only simplecomparisons on the tester, and which automaticallyscales with process variations which give a wide rangeof background currents. Dynamic thresholds are used,based on the ratio of maximum to minimum current.Using a single IDDQ measurement for each die, upperand lower comparator values are set, against whichIDDQ for each vector in the suite is compared.Production data is presented to verify the validity of themethod.