Determining error rate in error tolerant VLSI chips

  • Authors:
  • Melvin A. Breuer

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DELTA '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In the near future all die implementing high performancecircuitry will contain hundreds of thousands of defects.Most companies will attempt to achieve useful levels offunctionally good die using classical and enhanced faulttolerant and defect tolerant techniques. We advocate anew notion for yield enhancement called error tolerancethat includes marketing chips that occasionally outputerrors. The quantity and quality of errors produced by achip can be characterized several ways, such as byaccuracy, error rate, and accumulation (retention). Thispaper focuses on test techniques for estimating errorrate.