Impact of Thermal Gradients on Clock Skew and Testing

  • Authors:
  • Sebastia A. Bota;Josep L. Rossello;Carol de Benito;Ali Keshavarzi;Jaume Segura

  • Affiliations:
  • University of the Balearic Islands;University of the Balearic Islands;University of the Balearic Islands;Intel;University of the Balearic Islands

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It is a well-known phenomenon that test-mode switching activity and power consumption can exceed that of mission mode. Thus, testing can induce localized heating and temperature gradients with deleterious results. The authors quantify this problem and propose a novel design scheme to circumvent it.