This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, and content of a course on Testing and Testability. The course covers modeling digital circuits, fault modeling, testing for single stuck faults, design for testability techniques like scan architectures, built-in self-test concepts, and memory BIST. It aims to introduce different modeling styles, fault detection fundamentals, test vector generation principles, and boundary scan standards. Students will learn about fault types, testing architectures, and identifying faulty components.
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Testing & Testability
This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, and content of a course on Testing and Testability. The course covers modeling digital circuits, fault modeling, testing for single stuck faults, design for testability techniques like scan architectures, built-in self-test concepts, and memory BIST. It aims to introduce different modeling styles, fault detection fundamentals, test vector generation principles, and boundary scan standards. Students will learn about fault types, testing architectures, and identifying faulty components.
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Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor.
(Autonomous) L T P C M.Tech- II Semester-VLSI Design 3 1 0 3
(15BVL13) TESTING & TESTABILITY
Objectives: 1. To introduce the different modeling styles in digital circuits. 2. To understand the fundamentals of fault detection in digital circuits. 3. To know the basic principles of test vector generation. 4. To understand the principle of boundary scan standards. Outcomes: After completion of the course, the student will be able to: 1. Describe the levels of modeling in digital circuits. 2. Get knowledge on single stuck faults and multiple stuck faults. 3. Understand the different testing architectures. 4. Identify faulty components with in a circuit. UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO TEST AND DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY (DFT) FUNDAMENTALS: Modeling: Modeling Digital Circuits at Logic Level, Register Level and Structural Models. Levels of Modeling. Logic Simulation: Types of Simulation, Delay Models, Element Evaluation, Hazard Detection, Gate Level Event Driven Simulation. UNIT II FAULT MODELING: Logic Fault Models, Fault Detection and Redundancy, Fault Equivalence and Fault Location. Single Stuck and Multiple Stuck – Fault Models. Fault Simulation Applications, General Techniques for Combinational Circuits. TESTING FOR SINGLE STUCK FAULTS (SSF): Automated Test Pattern Generation (ATPG/ATG) For Ssfs in Combinational and Sequential Circuits, Functional Testing With Specific Fault Models UNIT III DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY: Testability Trade-Offs, Techniques. Scan Architectures and Testing – Controllability and Absorbability, Generic Boundary Scan, Full Integrated Scan, Storage Cells for Scan Design. Board Level and System Level DFT Approaches. Boundary Scans Standards. Compression Techniques – Different Techniques, Syndrome Test and Signature Analysis. UNIT IV BUILT-IN SELF-TEST (BIST): BIST Concepts and Test Pattern Generation. Specific BIST Architectures – CSBL, BEST, RTS, LOCST, STUMPS, CBIST, CEBS, RTD, SST, CATS, CSTP, BILBO. Brief Ideas on Some Advanced BIST Concepts and Design for Self-Test at Board Level. UNIT V MEMORY BIST (MBIST): Memory Test Architectures and Techniques – Introduction to Memory Test, Types of Memories and Integration, Embedded Memory Testing Model. Memory Test Requirements for MBIST. BRIEF IDEAS ON EMBEDDED CORE TESTING: Introduction to Automatic in Circuit Testing (ICT), JTAG Testing Features. TEXT BOOKS: 1.Miron Abramovici, Melvin A. Breur, Arthur D.Friedman, Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design, Jaico Publishing House, 2001. 2.Alfred Crouch, Design for Test for Digital ICs & Embedded Core Systems, Prentice Hall. REFERENCES: 1.Robert J.Feugate, Jr., Steven M.Mentyn, Introduction to VLSI Testing, Prentice Hall, Englehood Cliffs, 1998. 2.Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits - M.L. Bushnell, V. D. Agrawal, Kluwer Academic Pulishers. 3. Digital Circuits Testing and Testability - P.K. Lala, Academic Press.