Testing and Reliable Design of CMOS Circuits

Testing and Reliable Design of CMOS Circuits
Author: Niraj K. Jha
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461315255

In the last few years CMOS technology has become increas ingly dominant for realizing Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits. The popularity of this technology is due to its high den sity and low power requirement. The ability to realize very com plex circuits on a single chip has brought about a revolution in the world of electronics and computers. However, the rapid advance ments in this area pose many new problems in the area of testing. Testing has become a very time-consuming process. In order to ease the burden of testing, many schemes for designing the circuit for improved testability have been presented. These design for testability techniques have begun to catch the attention of chip manufacturers. The trend is towards placing increased emphasis on these techniques. Another byproduct of the increase in the complexity of chips is their higher susceptibility to faults. In order to take care of this problem, we need to build fault-tolerant systems. The area of fault-tolerant computing has steadily gained in importance. Today many universities offer courses in the areas of digital system testing and fault-tolerant computing. Due to the impor tance of CMOS technology, a significant portion of these courses may be devoted to CMOS testing. This book has been written as a reference text for such courses offered at the senior or graduate level. Familiarity with logic design and switching theory is assumed. The book should also prove to be useful to professionals working in the semiconductor industry.

The Best of ICCAD

The Best of ICCAD
Author: Andreas Kuehlmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 699
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461502926

In 2002, the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) celebrates its 20th anniversary. This book commemorates contributions made by ICCAD to the broad field of design automation during that time. The foundation of ICCAD in 1982 coincided with the growth of Large Scale Integration. The sharply increased functionality of board-level circuits led to a major demand for more powerful Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. At the same time, LSI grew quickly and advanced circuit integration became widely avail able. This, in turn, required new tools, using sophisticated modeling, analysis and optimization algorithms in order to manage the evermore complex design processes. Not surprisingly, during the same period, a number of start-up com panies began to commercialize EDA solutions, complementing various existing in-house efforts. The overall increased interest in Design Automation (DA) re quired a new forum for the emerging community of EDA professionals; one which would be focused on the publication of high-quality research results and provide a structure for the exchange of ideas on a broad scale. Many of the original ICCAD volunteers were also members of CANDE (Computer-Aided Network Design), a workshop of the IEEE Circuits and Sys tem Society. In fact, it was at a CANDE workshop that Bill McCalla suggested the creation of a conference for the EDA professional. (Bill later developed the name).

Switching and Finite Automata Theory

Switching and Finite Automata Theory
Author: Zvi Kohavi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0521857481

Understand the structure, behavior, and limitations of logic machines with this thoroughly updated third edition. Many new topics are included, such as CMOS gates, logic synthesis, logic design for emerging nanotechnologies, digital system testing, and asynchronous circuit design, to bring students up-to-speed with modern developments. The intuitive examples and minimal formalism of the previous edition are retained, giving students a text that is logical and easy to follow, yet rigorous. Kohavi and Jha begin with the basics, and then cover combinational logic design and testing, before moving on to more advanced topics in finite-state machine design and testing. Theory is made easier to understand with 200 illustrative examples, and students can test their understanding with over 350 end-of-chapter review questions.

Testing of Digital Systems

Testing of Digital Systems
Author: N. K. Jha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1022
Release: 2003-05-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781139437431

Device testing represents the single largest manufacturing expense in the semiconductor industry, costing over $40 billion a year. The most comprehensive and wide ranging book of its kind, Testing of Digital Systems covers everything you need to know about this vitally important subject. Starting right from the basics, the authors take the reader through automatic test pattern generation, design for testability and built-in self-test of digital circuits before moving on to more advanced topics such as IDDQ testing, functional testing, delay fault testing, memory testing, and fault diagnosis. The book includes detailed treatment of the latest techniques including test generation for various fault models, discussion of testing techniques at different levels of integrated circuit hierarchy and a chapter on system-on-a-chip test synthesis. Written for students and engineers, it is both an excellent senior/graduate level textbook and a valuable reference.

Computer Systems and Software Engineering

Computer Systems and Software Engineering
Author: Patrick DeWilde
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461535069

Computer Systems and Software Engineering is a compilation of sixteen state-of-the-art lectures and keynote speeches given at the COMPEURO '92 conference. The contributions are from leading researchers, each of whom gives a new insight into subjects ranging from hardware design through parallelism to computer applications. The pragmatic flavour of the contributions makes the book a valuable asset for both researchers and designers alike. The book covers the following subjects: Hardware Design: memory technology, logic design, algorithms and architecture; Parallel Processing: programming, cellular neural networks and load balancing; Software Engineering: machine learning, logic programming and program correctness; Visualization: the graphical computer interface.

The Synthesis Approach to Digital System Design

The Synthesis Approach to Digital System Design
Author: Petra Michel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461536324

Over the past decade there has been a dramatic change in the role played by design automation for electronic systems. Ten years ago, integrated circuit (IC) designers were content to use the computer for circuit, logic, and limited amounts of high-level simulation, as well as for capturing the digitized mask layouts used for IC manufacture. The tools were only aids to design-the designer could always find a way to implement the chip or board manually if the tools failed or if they did not give acceptable results. Today, however, design technology plays an indispensable role in the design ofelectronic systems and is critical to achieving time-to-market, cost, and performance targets. In less than ten years, designers have come to rely on automatic or semi automatic CAD systems for the physical design ofcomplex ICs containing over a million transistors. In the past three years, practical logic synthesis systems that take into account both cost and performance have become a commercial reality and many designers have already relinquished control ofthe logic netlist level of design to automatic computer aids. To date, only in certain well-defined areas, especially digital signal process ing and telecommunications. have higher-level design methods and tools found significant success. However, the forces of time-to-market and growing system complexity will demand the broad-based adoption of high-level, automated methods and tools over the next few years.

FTCS-22

FTCS-22
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1992
Genre: Electronic digital computers
ISBN:

Simulation in the Design of Digital Electronic Systems

Simulation in the Design of Digital Electronic Systems
Author: John B. Gosling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1993-10-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780521426725

This description of the structure of simulators suitable for use in the design of digital electronic systems includes the compiled code and event driven algorithms for digital electronic system simulators, together with timing verification as well as structural limitations and problems.

International Test Conference, 1993

International Test Conference, 1993
Author:
Publisher: Conference
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1993
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Annotation Proceedings of the 24th International Test Conference held in Baltimore, October 1993--the premier conference for the testing of electronic devices, assemblies, and systems, including design for testability and diagnostics. This year's leading edge topics are mixed-signal testing, multichip modules, systems test, automatic synthesis of test structures in design, boundary scan, and Iddq. Core topics represented included ATPG, modeling, test equipment hardware, delay fault testing, software testing, DFT, applied BIST, board testing, memory and microprocessor testing, test economics, and test quality and reliability. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.