Testability of floating gate defects in sequential circuits

  • Authors:
  • V. H. Champac;J. Figueras

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VTS '95 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Abstract: The logic detectability conditions of floating gate (FG) defects in sequential circuits are considered. It has been found that a FG defective sequential circuit may be able to memorize one or two logic states depending on the values of the defect parameters. I/sub DDQ/ testing may detect a large class of floating gate defects including some defective transistors located in logically untestable branches. Good agreement is observed between the theoretical and simulated results with experimental measurements performed on a typical scan path cell designed intentionally with floating gate defects.