A BUILT-IN TIMING PARAMETRIC MEASUREMENT UNIT

  • Authors:
  • Ming-Jun Hsiao;Jing-Reng Huang;Shao-Shen Yang;Tsin-Yuan Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '01 Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A built-in parametric measurement circuit is proposed for time-interval measurement and setup/hold timemeasurement.The main idea is based on the dual-slopetechnique.The minimum resolution is set by resistorarray configuration,which is 1/16 clock period in thispaper and easily extendable to desired precision.Theimperfectness,including the offset voltage and thesettling time,is considered to improve the accuracy.Moreover a simple calibration method is proposed toreduce the measuring error.Experiments on the SRAMaccess time measurement and the register setup/holdtime measurement show the practicality of the proposedunit.