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  • Testability Analysis of Analog Circuits via Determinant Decision Diagrams

    Tao PI  Chuan-Jin Richard SHI  

     
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      Vol:
    E83-A No:12
      Page(s):
    2608-2615

    The use of the column-rank of the system sensitivity matrix as a testability measure for parametric faults in linear analog circuits was pioneered by Sen and Saeks in 1970s, and later re-introduced by several others. Its practical use has been limited by how it can be calculated. Numerical algorithms suffer from inevitable round-off errors, while traditional symbolic techniques can only handle very small circuits. In this paper, an efficient method is introduced for the analysis of Sen and Saeks' analog testability. The method employs determinant decision diagram based symbolic circuit analysis. Experimental results have demonstrated the new method is capable of handling much larger analog circuits.