Detecting bridging faults with stuck-at test sets
- 6 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 10893539,p. 773-783
- https://doi.org/10.1109/test.1988.207864
Abstract
A method is described that provides high detection of bridging faults without requiring extensive fault simulation. Bridging fault coverage can be increased by doing fault simulation and test generation for bridging faults that are identified as hard to detect. These bridging faults occur between nodes that rarely, if ever, differ, or that seldom change value. In addition, if the nodes in the fault-free circuits toggle often, feedback faults are easier to detect. This is true even if the nodes involved always have equal values. Methods for identifying such nodes have been presented. These methods use results available from fault-free simulations. A simple solution is to randomly reorder the test vectors to increase toggling and therefore increase bridging fault coverage. As a result, computer time for test generation will be only slightly greater than the time required for stuck-at fault generation alone.Keywords
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