Algorithms for Switch Level Delay Fault Simulation

  • Authors:
  • Soumitra Bose;Vishwani D. Agrawal;Thomas G. Szymanski

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

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

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Abstract

Delay test problems are well understood for gate levelcircuits. -For certain logic families, delays depend onthe charge stored at internal nodes. For such circuits,gate level models do not sufice. A switch level simulatorcan be used for logic verification and stuck-at faultsimulation. Toward making the delay fault simulationpossible, this paper contributes three innovations to theswitch-level technique: (1) Signals that remain steadyover two consecutive vectors are identified using additionalstrength designations for charge and dischargepaths; (2) Delay faults are propagated through MOSgates using articulation analysis of the graph; and (3)A modified relaxation procedure determines the steadyor non-steady status of signals at the same time it evaluatesnodes. Experimental results demonstrate the validityof algorithms.