Detection of time-delay related faults using Fourier phase components of power supply current

Author

Papakostas, D.K. ; Hatzopoulos, A.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

40

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

8

Abstract

A new method using power supply current spectrum phase components for fault detection in analogue and mixed mode circuits is presented. A procedure is introduced, a discrimination factor is defined and its value is adjusted for efficient application of the method. Representative results from an operational amplifier and a flash analogue-to-digital converter circuit are given, showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

Fourier analysis; Monte Carlo methods; analogue integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; circuit simulation; delays; fault diagnosis; integrated circuit testing; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; operational amplifiers; spectral analysis; Fourier phase components; analogue circuits; circuit simulations; circuit testing; discrimination factor; flash analogue-to-digital converter; hard-to-detect faults; mixed mode circuits; multiple Monte Carlo simulations; operational amplifier; power supply current spectrum; time-delay related fault detection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20040070

Filename

1260643