Title
A Pulse Shrinking-based Test Solution for Pre-bond Through Silicon Via in 3D ICs
Abstract
Since the physical defects such as resistive open and leakage in through silicon vias (TSVs) caused by immature manufacturing techniques tend to undermine the reliability and yield of 3-D integrated circuits, it is very important to test the TSV as early as possible in the fabrication process. There are some shortcomings in the existing prebond TSV test techniques, such as incomprehensive fault coverage, large area overhead, and additional test time. To overcome these problems, a noninvasive solution for prebond TSV test based on pulse shrinking is proposed in this paper. This method makes use of the fact that defects in TSV lead to variation in the propagation delay—the rise and fall times are first transformed into pulse width, and the pulse shrinking technique is used to digitize the pulse width into a digital code which is then compared with an expected value for a fault-free TSV. Experiments on defect detection are carried out using HSPICE simulations with realistic models for 45-nm CMOS technology. The results show that the proposed method performs better than the existing methods in terms of fault coverage, area overhead, and test time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tcad.2018.2821559
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Through-silicon vias,Circuit faults,Testing,Silicon,Three-dimensional displays,Integrated circuit modeling
Leakage (electronics),Fault coverage,Computer science,Resistive touchscreen,Pulse-width modulation,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Through-silicon via,Integrated circuit,Fabrication
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
4
0278-0070
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maoxiang Yi1289.14
Jingchang Bian210.70
Tianming Ni32610.23
Cuiyun Jiang4203.93
Chang Hao5111.64
Huaguo Liang621633.27