Assessing Fault Model and Test Quality

For many years, the dominant fault model in automatic test pattern gen­ eration (ATPG) for digital integrated circuits has been the stuck-at fault model. The static nature of stuck-at fault testing when compared to the extremely dynamic nature of integrated circuit (IC) technology has caused many to...

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Main Authors: Butler, Kenneth M., Mercer, M. Ray (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Functional Test Generation Techniques -- 1.2 Representing Symmetric Functions with OBDDs -- 1.3 Controllability, Observability, and Detectability -- 1.4 Modeling ATPG and Measuring Test Quality -- 2. Fault Modeling -- 2.1 Fault Model Assumptions -- 2.2 Fault Model Classes -- 3. Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams -- 3.1 History of OBDDs -- 3.2 Properties of OBDDs -- 3.3 Shannon’s Expansion Theorem -- 4. Automatic Test Pattern Generation -- 4.1 ATPG Problem Specification -- 4.2 Conventional ATPG Algorithms -- 4.3 Boolean Functional Test Generation -- 5. Defect Level -- 5.1 Definition of Defect Level -- 5.2 Defect Level Simplifying Assumptions -- 5.3 Defect Level Models -- 6. Test Performance Evaluation -- 6.1 Theoretical Approaches -- 6.2 Fault Simulation Approaches -- 6.3 Test Application Approaches -- 6.4 Layout Driven Approaches -- 7. OBDDs for Symmetric Functions -- 7.1 Symmetric Functions -- 7.2 Circuit and Function Terminology --  
505 0 |a 11.7 Implications to Defect Level -- 12. Conclusions -- 13.Suggestions for Future Research -- 13.1 Extensions to OBDD Size Research -- 13.2 Extensions to Difference Propagation -- 13.3 Extensions to Test Quality Research -- 13.4 Using Ordered Partial Decision Diagrams -- 13.5 General Extensions 
505 0 |a 7.3 The Symmetry Diagram -- 7.4 Removing Redundant Vertices -- 7.5 Derivation of OBDD Size Equations -- 7.6 Uniqueness Argument -- 7.7 OBDDs for Tree Circuits -- 7.8 OBDD Size Summary -- 8. Difference Propagation -- 8.1 The Development of Difference Propagation -- 8.2 Deriving the Input-Output Relationships -- 8.3 The Difference Propagation Algorithm -- 8.4 The Efficiency of Differences -- 8.5 Using Functional Decomposition -- 9. Fault Model Behavior -- 9.1 Selection of Fault Models and Fault Sets -- 9.2 Fault Behavior Results and Analysis -- 10.The Contributions of Con/Obs to Test -- 10.1 Motivation to Study Con/Obs -- 10.2 Definitions of Con/Obs -- 10.3 Generating Con/Obs Information -- 10.4 Con/Obs Results and Analysis -- 10.5 Con/Obs Summary -- 11.Analyzing Test Performance -- 11.1 Defect Level Motivation -- 11.2 ATPG Model Development -- 11.3 Fault SetSelectability -- 11.4 Probabilistic Non-Target Defect Coverage -- 11.5 Faults Sets -- 11.6 Test Performance Results --  
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520 |a For many years, the dominant fault model in automatic test pattern gen­ eration (ATPG) for digital integrated circuits has been the stuck-at fault model. The static nature of stuck-at fault testing when compared to the extremely dynamic nature of integrated circuit (IC) technology has caused many to question whether or not stuck-at fault based testing is still viable. Attempts at answering this question have not been wholly satisfying due to a lack of true quantification, statistical significance, and/or high computational expense. In this monograph we introduce a methodology to address the ques­ tion in a manner which circumvents the drawbacks of previous approaches. The method is based on symbolic Boolean functional analyses using Or­ dered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs). OBDDs have been conjectured to be an attractive representation form for Boolean functions, although cases ex­ ist for which their complexity is guaranteed to grow exponentially with input cardinality. Classes of Boolean functions which exploit the efficiencies inherent in OBDDs to a very great extent are examined in Chapter 7. Exact equa­ tions giving their OBDD sizes are derived, whereas until very recently only size bounds have been available. These size equations suggest that straight­ forward applications of OBDDs to design and test related problems may not prove as fruitful as was once thought