• DocumentCode
    3375211
  • Title

    Levelized low cost delay test compaction considering IR-drop induced power supply noise

  • Author

    Jiang, Zhongwei ; Wang, Zheng ; Wang, Jing ; Walker, D.M.H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-5 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    52
  • Lastpage
    57
  • Abstract
    Power supply noise is very important in delay testing. Excessive noise can cause circuit delay increases that lead to test overkill. Test patterns that are too quiet can lead to test escapes. In this work, we introduce a realistic low cost delay test compaction flow that guardbands circuit delay during test using a sequence of estimation metrics. Significant reductions in CPU time are demonstrated over prior work.
  • Keywords
    delays; integrated circuit noise; integrated circuit testing; power supply circuits; IR drop induced power supply noise; delay testing; estimation metrics; guardbands circuit delay; levelized low cost delay test compaction; Compaction; Computational modeling; Correlation; Delay; Integrated circuit modeling; Noise; Power supplies; IR drop; delay test; dynamic compaction; power supply noise; static compaction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2011 IEEE 29th
  • Conference_Location
    Dana Point, CA
  • ISSN
    1093-0167
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-657-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VTS.2011.5783754
  • Filename
    5783754