Title
Built-in self-test of global interconnects of field programmable analog arrays
Abstract
Strategies for the test of Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs) have been devised based on testing separately their main three components: configurable analog blocks, I/O pads and interconnection network. In this work, a scheme for testing the interconnection network, in particular the global wiring, is presented. As long as analog wiring is considered, catastrophic faults at the switches and wires are considered, as well as parametric capacitive or resistive defects in interconnects. Similarly to FPGAs, critical path search is based on a graph model, so that known algorithms are reused, yielding a minimum number of Test Configurations. Then, a near-zero area overhead BIST procedure is proposed, in which Analog Built-in Block Observers are implemented as oscillators and integrators, respectively, generating test stimuli and analyzing output responses, using internal configurable resources of the FPAA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.mejo.2005.06.001
Microelectronics Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
FPAA,Global interconnection,Graph modeling,BIST,ORA,ABILBO
Integrator,Field-programmable gate array,Capacitive sensing,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Field-programmable analog array,Critical path method,Interconnection,Integrated circuit,Built-in self-test
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
12
0026-2692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.50
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Andrade Jr.150.83
Gustavo Vieira250.50
Tiago R. Balen35312.21
Marcelo Lubaszewski448347.66
Florence Azaïs5466.58
Michel Renovell674996.46