Title
Design-for-test techniques for opens in undetected branches in CMOS latches and flip-flops
Abstract
In this paper, a design-for-testability (DFT) technique to test open defects in otherwise undetectable faulty branches in fully static CMOS latches and flip-flops is proposed. The main benefits of our proposal are: 1) it is able to detect a parametric range of resistive opens defects and 2) the performance degradation is very low. The testability of the added DFT circuitry is also addressed. The cost of the proposed technique in terms of speed degradation, area overhead, and extra pins is analyzed. Comparison with other previously proposed testable latches is carried out. Circuits with the proposed technique have been designed and fabricated. Good agreement is observed between the analytical analysis, simulations and experimental measures performed on the fabricated circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/TVLSI.2007.896910
IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
design-for-test technique,analytical analysis,added dft circuitry,proposed technique,speed degradation,performance degradation,undetected branch,main benefit,good agreement,experimental measure,extra pin,area overhead,cmos integrated circuits,degradation,design for test,design for testability,dft
Testability,Design for testing,Resistive touchscreen,FLOPS,Computer science,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Parametric statistics,Electronic circuit,Flip-flop
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
5
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Zenteno Ramirez110.36
Guillermo Espinosa210.36
Victor Champac361.85