Implicit and Exact Path Delay Fault Grading in Sequential Circuits

  • Authors:
  • M. M. Vaseekar Kumar;S. Tragoudas;S. Chakravarty;R. Jayabharathi

  • Affiliations:
  • Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL;Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL;Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA;Intel Corporation, Sacramento, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The first path implicit and exact non-robust path delay fault grading technique for non-scan sequential circuits is presented. Non enumerative exact coverage is obtained, by allowing any latched error representing a delayed transition to propagate to a primary output with thesupport of other potentially latched errors. The generalized error propagation is done by symbolic simulation. Appropriate data structures for function manipulation are used. The advantage of the proposed method is demonstrated experimentally with consistent improvement in coverage over an existing pessimistic heuristic despite enforced bounds onthe memory requirements.