A Designer’s Guide to Built-In Self-Test

A Designer’s Guide to Built-In Self-Test
Author: Charles E. Stroud
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005-12-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0306475049

A recent technological advance is the art of designing circuits to test themselves, referred to as a Built-In Self-Test. This book is written from a designer's perspective and describes the major BIST approaches that have been proposed and implemented, along with their advantages and limitations.

Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits

Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits
Author: M. Bushnell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0306470403

The modern electronic testing has a forty year history. Test professionals hold some fairly large conferences and numerous workshops, have a journal, and there are over one hundred books on testing. Still, a full course on testing is offered only at a few universities, mostly by professors who have a research interest in this area. Apparently, most professors would not have taken a course on electronic testing when they were students. Other than the computer engineering curriculum being too crowded, the major reason cited for the absence of a course on electronic testing is the lack of a suitable textbook. For VLSI the foundation was provided by semiconductor device techn- ogy, circuit design, and electronic testing. In a computer engineering curriculum, therefore, it is necessary that foundations should be taught before applications. The field of VLSI has expanded to systems-on-a-chip, which include digital, memory, and mixed-signalsubsystems. To our knowledge this is the first textbook to cover all three types of electronic circuits. We have written this textbook for an undergraduate “foundations” course on electronic testing. Obviously, it is too voluminous for a one-semester course and a teacher will have to select from the topics. We did not restrict such freedom because the selection may depend upon the individual expertise and interests. Besides, there is merit in having a larger book that will retain its usefulness for the owner even after the completion of the course. With equal tenacity, we address the needs of three other groups of readers.

SOC Design Methodologies

SOC Design Methodologies
Author: Michel Robert
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387355979

The 11 th IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, in Montpellier, France, December 3-5,2001, was a great success. The main focus was about IP Cores, Circuits and System Designs & Applications as well as SOC Design Methods and CAD. This book contains the best papers (39 among 70) that have been presented during the conference. Those papers deal with all aspects of importance for the design of the current and future integrated systems. System on Chip (SOC) design is today a big challenge for designers, as a SOC may contain very different blocks, such as microcontrollers, DSPs, memories including embedded DRAM, analog, FPGA, RF front-ends for wireless communications and integrated sensors. The complete design of such chips, in very deep submicron technologies down to 0.13 mm, with several hundreds of millions of transistors, supplied at less than 1 Volt, is a very challenging task if design, verification, debug and industrial test are considered. The microelectronic revolution is fascinating; 55 years ago, in late 1947, the transistor was invented, and everybody knows that it was by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattein, Bell Telephone Laboratories, which received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. Probably, everybody thinks that it was recognized immediately as a major invention.

Practical Reliability Of Electronic Equipment And Products

Practical Reliability Of Electronic Equipment And Products
Author: Eugene R. Hnatek
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2002-10-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780203909089

Examining numerous examples of highly sensitive products, this book reviews basic reliability mathematics, describes robust design practices, and discusses the process of selecting suppliers and components. He focuses on the specific issues of thermal management, electrostatic discharge, electromagnetic compatibility, printed wiring assembly, environmental stress testing, and failure analysis. The book presents methods for meeting the reliability goals established for the manufacture of electronic product hardware and addresses the development of reliable software. The appendix provides example guidelines for the derating of electrical and electromechanical components.

System-on-Chip Test Architectures

System-on-Chip Test Architectures
Author: Laung-Terng Wang
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 893
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080556809

Modern electronics testing has a legacy of more than 40 years. The introduction of new technologies, especially nanometer technologies with 90nm or smaller geometry, has allowed the semiconductor industry to keep pace with the increased performance-capacity demands from consumers. As a result, semiconductor test costs have been growing steadily and typically amount to 40% of today's overall product cost. This book is a comprehensive guide to new VLSI Testing and Design-for-Testability techniques that will allow students, researchers, DFT practitioners, and VLSI designers to master quickly System-on-Chip Test architectures, for test debug and diagnosis of digital, memory, and analog/mixed-signal designs. - Emphasizes VLSI Test principles and Design for Testability architectures, with numerous illustrations/examples. - Most up-to-date coverage available, including Fault Tolerance, Low-Power Testing, Defect and Error Tolerance, Network-on-Chip (NOC) Testing, Software-Based Self-Testing, FPGA Testing, MEMS Testing, and System-In-Package (SIP) Testing, which are not yet available in any testing book. - Covers the entire spectrum of VLSI testing and DFT architectures, from digital and analog, to memory circuits, and fault diagnosis and self-repair from digital to memory circuits. - Discusses future nanotechnology test trends and challenges facing the nanometer design era; promising nanotechnology test techniques, including Quantum-Dots, Cellular Automata, Carbon-Nanotubes, and Hybrid Semiconductor/Nanowire/Molecular Computing. - Practical problems at the end of each chapter for students.

Design and Test Technology for Dependable Systems-on-chip

Design and Test Technology for Dependable Systems-on-chip
Author: Raimund Ubar
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1609602145

"This book covers aspects of system design and efficient modelling, and also introduces various fault models and fault mechanisms associated with digital circuits integrated into System on Chip (SoC), Multi-Processor System-on Chip (MPSoC) or Network on Chip (NoC)"--

Testing and Diagnosis of VLSI and ULSI

Testing and Diagnosis of VLSI and ULSI
Author: F. Lombardi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400914172

This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on ·Testing and Diagnosis of VLSI and ULSI" held at Villa Olmo, Como (Italy) June 22 -July 3,1987. High Density technologies such as Very-Large Scale Integration (VLSI), Wafer Scale Integration (WSI) and the not-so-far promises of Ultra-Large Scale Integration (ULSI), have exasperated the problema associated with the testing and diagnosis of these devices and systema. Traditional techniques are fast becoming obsolete due to unique requirements such as limited controllability and observability, increasing execution complexity for test vector generation and high cost of fault simulation, to mention just a few. New approaches are imperative to achieve the highly sought goal of the • three months· turn around cycle time for a state-of-the-art computer chip. The importance of testing and diagnostic processes is of primary importance if costs must be kept at acceptable levels. The objective of this NATO-ASI was to present, analyze and discuss the various facets of testing and diagnosis with respect to both theory and practice. The contents of this volume reflect the diversity of approaches currently available to reduce test and diagnosis time. These approaches are described in a concise, yet clear way by renowned experts of the field. Their contributions are aimed at a wide readership: the uninitiated researcher will find the tutorial chapters very rewarding. The expert wiII be introduced to advanced techniques in a very comprehensive manner.

EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing

EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing
Author: Louis Scheffer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351837591

Presenting a comprehensive overview of the design automation algorithms, tools, and methodologies used to design integrated circuits, the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook is available in two volumes. The first volume, EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing, thoroughly examines system-level design, microarchitectural design, logical verification, and testing. Chapters contributed by leading experts authoritatively discuss processor modeling and design tools, using performance metrics to select microprocessor cores for IC designs, design and verification languages, digital simulation, hardware acceleration and emulation, and much more. Save on the complete set.

19th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium

19th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
Author:
Publisher: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780769511221

Collects 58 papers from the April/May 2001 symposium that explore new approaches in the testing of electronic circuits and systems. Key areas in testing are discussed, such as BIST, analog measurement, fault tolerance, diagnosis methods, scan chain design, memory test and diagnosis, and test data compression and compaction. Also on the program are sessions on emerging areas that are gaining prominence, including low power testing, testing high speed circuits on low cost testers, processor based self test techniques, and core- based system-on-chip testing. Some of the topics are robust and low cost BIST architectures for sequential fault testing in datapath multipliers, a method for measuring the cycle-to-cycle period jitter of high-frequency clock signals, fault equivalence identification using redundancy information and static and dynamic extraction, and test scheduling for minimal energy consumption under power constraints. No subject index. c. Book News Inc.

Contemporary Computing

Contemporary Computing
Author: Sanjay Ranka
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642148255

This book constitutes the second part of the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference, IC3 2010, held in Noida, India, in August 2010. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.