An Unified Fault Model and Test Generation Procedure for Interconnect Opens and Bridges

  • Authors:
  • Gang Chen;Sudhakar Reddy;Irith Pomeranz;Janusz Rajski;Piet Engelke;Bernd Becker

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Iowa;University of Iowa;Purdue University;Mentor Graphics Corporation;Albert-Ludwigs-University;Albert-Ludwigs-University

  • Venue:
  • ETS '05 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Test
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

An unified gate-level fault model for interconnect opens and bridges is proposed. Defects are modeled as constrained multiple line stuck-at faults. A novel feature of the proposed fault model is its flexibility to accommodate increasing levels of accuracy. Additionally the model does not require accurate device level circuit models to achieve desired accuracy. Efficient methods for fault simulation and test generation are discussed and experimental results on benchmark circuits and industrial designs are presented. The experimental results presented show that the tests generated using simpler versions of the proposed fault model achieve higher defect coverage than the tests using two currently popular methods to derive high defect coverage tests.