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TESTING FOR CROSSTALK- AND BRIDGE-INDUCED DELAY FAULTS
by
Shahdad Irajpour
_____________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Shahdad Irajpour
Object Description
| Title | Testing for crosstalk- and bridge-induced delay faults |
| Author | Irajpour, Shahdad |
| Author email | irajpour@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Electrical Engineering |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-19 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-12-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gupta, Sandeep K. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Breuer, Melvin A. Medvidovic, Nenad |
| Abstract | Process technology advancements are increasing coupling capacitance values and the resulting crosstalk-induced delay. As a result, noise and timing margins are decreasing and circuits' susceptibility to defects is increasing. The population of defects is also changing and the influence of fluctuations of process parameters during manufacturing is becoming more and more important due to process technology advancements.; Due to the above mentioned reasons, crosstalk-induced delay must not only be considered in timing verification but it must also be considered in post-fabrication testing together with realistic populations of manufacturing imperfections and process variations.; This dissertation focuses on testing for crosstalk-induced delay faults in the presence of delay faults caused by defects and process variations. Furthermore, with bridges being the predominant type of manufacturing defects in new technologies, this dissertation also focuses on testing for bridge-induced delay faults in the presence of other delay faults. In the presence of delay faults at unknown locations and of unknown sizes, nominal timing information is not valid. We present timing-independent approaches for testing for crosstalk- and bridge-induced delay faults. Using these approaches, under certain circumstances, tests are generated that guarantee testing for crosstalk- or bridge-induced delay faults. No existing approach generates tests that can provide such a guarantee.; Certain assumptions about the nature of defects and process variations and the resulting delay faults can be exploited in the test methodology that result in higher coverage of crosstalk or bridge sites and also lower test generation and test application costs. These assumptions and their ramifications are also discussed. |
| Keyword | test; delay fault; crosstalk; bridge |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m963 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Irajpour, Shahdad |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Irajpour-20071203 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Irajpour-20071203.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | TESTING FOR CROSSTALK- AND BRIDGE-INDUCED DELAY FAULTS by Shahdad Irajpour _____________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Shahdad Irajpour |
