Title
Transient IR-Drop Analysis for At-Speed Testing Using Representative Random Walk
Abstract
This paper presents a representative random walk technique for fast transient IR-drop analysis. It selects only a small number of nodes to model the original network for simulation so that the memory and runtime are significantly reduced. Experimental results on benchmark circuits show that our proposed technique can be up to 330 times faster than a commercial simulator while the average error is less than 10%. Furthermore, the exhaustive simulation of all 26-K delay fault test patterns on a 400-K-gate design can be finished within a week. The proposed technique is very useful to simulate capture cycles for identifying the test patterns that cause excessive IR drop during at-speed testing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TVLSI.2013.2280616
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
400-k-gate design,transient ir-drop analysis,integrated circuit testing,at-speed testing,automatic test pattern generation,game theory,transient analysis.,delay fault test patterns,ir drop,representative random walk,transient analysis
Power network design,Random walk,Computer science,Simulation,Electronic engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
9
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ming-Hong Tsai110.35
Wei-Sheng Ding210.35
Hung-Yi Hsieh3174.22
James Chien-Mo Li418727.16