Transient Power Supply Voltage (V DDT ) Analysis for Detecting IC Defects

  • Authors:
  • Edward I. Cole Jr.;Jerry M. Soden;Paiboon Tangyunyong;Patrick L. Candelaria;Richard W. Beegle;Daniel L. Barton;Christopher L. Henderson;Charles F. Hawkins

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Transient power supply voltage (vDDT)analysis is a new testing technique demonstrated as apowerful alternative and complement to IDDQ testing.vDDT analysis takes advantage of the limited responsetime of a voltage supply to the changing powerdemand of an IC during operation. Changes in theVDD response time can be used to detect increases inthe power demand of a microcontroller withresolutions of 20 nA at 100 kHz, 1 µA at 1 MHz, and2.5 µA at 1.5 MHz. These current sensitivities havebeen shown for ICs with very low IDDQ (