Title :
Automatic March tests generation for static and dynamic faults in SRAMs
Author :
Benso, A. ; Bosio, A. ; Di Carlo, S. ; Di Natale, G. ; Prinetto, P.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Abstract :
New memory production modern technologies introduce new classes of faults usually referred to as dynamic memory faults. Although some hand-made March tests to deal with these new faults have been published, the problem of automatically generate March tests for dynamic faults has still to be addressed, in this paper we propose a new approach to automatically generate March tests with minimal length for both static and dynamic faults. The proposed approach resorts to a formal model to represent faulty behaviors in a memory and to simplify the generation of the corresponding tests.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; automatic test pattern generation; fault simulation; integrated circuit testing; SRAM; automatic March tests generation; dynamic memory faults; formal model; memory production modern technologies; static memory faults; Access protocols; Algorithm design and analysis; Automatic testing; Computational modeling; Hardware; Production; Random access memory; Silicon; System-on-a-chip; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Test Symposium, 2005. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2341-2