Current and Future Directions in Automatic Test Pattern Generation for Power Delivery Network Validation

An overview of test generation approaches to maximize power supply noise is provided and issues related to and research directions for generation of test vectors with representative power are discussed. In particular, to facilitate the early design and validation of the power delivery network (PDN), the need for automatic high-level test generation to create functionally representative vectors that cause worst-case power events, which stress the power grid, is described.