On Invalidation Mechanisms for Non-Robust Delay Tests

  • Authors:
  • Haluk Konuk

  • Affiliations:
  • -

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

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Abstract

In most of the delay fault testing literature there isa widespread belief that a non-robust test for a pathdelay fault can be invalidated only through the existence of another path delay fault. In this paper wepresent an analysis of conditions that can invalidatea non-robust test, and present four different invalidation mechanisms. Three of these mechanisms, inaddition to the pulse dampening described in [1], donot require the existence of another path delay faultin a circuit. We also define pseudo-VNR tests, and weshow that this is the most common interpretation ofvalidatable-non-robust tests in literature. Uncovering the invalidation mechanisms for non-robust testsis quite important given the fact that a large numberof paths in a circuit usually do not have any robusttests.