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Static test compaction for IDDQ testing of bridging faults in sequential circuits

✍ Scribed by Yoshinobu Higami; Kewal K. Saluja; Yuzo Takamatsu; Kozo Kinoshita


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
335 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0882-1666

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✦ Synopsis


This paper presents a static test compaction method for IDDQ testing of sequential circuits. Test compaction reduces test application time and tester memory and consequently reduces testing cost. Particularly for IDDQ testing, measurement of IDDQ is time-consuming, and thus test compaction is a very important issue. In the proposed method, test subsequences are removed and replaced with shorter subsequences by considering state transition of a circuit under test, so that original fault coverage is guaranteed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by experimental results for ISCAS89 benchmark circuits.