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Diagnosing Crosstalk Faults in Sequential Circuits Using Fault Simulation

Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Marong PHADOONGSIDHI, Yoshinobu HIGAMI, Kewal K. SALUJA, Yuzo TAKAMATSU

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In this paper we propose two diagnosis methods for crosstalk-induced pulse faults in sequential circuits using crosstalk fault simulation. These methods compare observed responses and simulated values at primary outputs to identify a set of suspected faults that are consistent with the observed responses. The first method is a restart-based method which determines the suspected fault list by using the knowledge about the first and last failures of the test sequence. The advantage of the restart-based method over a method using full simulation is its reduction of the number of simulated faults in a process of diagnosing faults. The second method is a resumption-based method which uses stored state information. The advantage of the resumption-based method over the restart-based method is its reduction of the CPU time for diagnosing the faults. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is evaluated by experiments conducted on ISCAS '89 benchmark circuits. From the experimental results we show that the number of suspected faults obtained by our methods is sufficiently small, and the resumption-based method is substantially faster than the restart-based method.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E85-D No.10 pp.1515-1525
Publication Date
2002/10/01
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Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Test and Verification of VLSI)
Category
Test and Diagnosis for Timing Faults

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