ENHANCED DELAY DEFECT COVERAGE WITH PATH-SEGMENTS

  • Authors:
  • Manish Sharma;Janak H. Patel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

The number of robustly testable paths is very low for typicalcircuits, hence the delay defect coverage of a robustpath fault test set can be very small. Robustly testing path-segments which are not covered by any robustly testablepaths can enhance the defect coverage of a path test set,however the existence of such uncovered path-segments inbenchmark circuits has not been proven so far. In this paperwe experimentally prove the existence of robustly testablepath-segments not covered by any robustly testable pathsin the ISCAS benchmark circuits. A highly effective delayfault test generator, using some novel techniques, has beenimplemented for this purpose and is also described in thepaper.