Testing

Design Confidence, Complexity, and Scaling: The Present and Future of System Validation

Invited talk at The University of Mississippi.

Design Confidence, Complexity, and Scaling: The Present and Future of System Validation

Invited talk at California Polytechnic.

Concurrent Stimulus and Defect Magnitude Optimization for Detection of Weakest Shorts and Opens in Analog Circuits

We present a methodology for algorithmic generation of test signals for thedetection and diagnosis of a variety of short and open-circuit defects in analogcircuits. Prior algorithms have focused on test generation for known short oropen defect …

DE-LOC: Design Validation and Debugging under Limited Observation and Control, Pre- and Post-Silicon for Mixed-Signal Systems

In the modern mixed-signal SoC design cycle, designers are frequently tasked with detecting and diagnosing behavioral discrepancies between design descriptions given at different levels of hierarchy, e.g. behavioral vs. transistor level descriptions …

Adaptive Testing of Analog/RF Circuits Using Hardware Extracted FSM Models

The test generation problem for analog/RF circuits has been largely intractable due to the fact that repetitive circuit simulation for test stimulus optimization is extremely time-consuming. As a consequence, it is difficult, if not impossible, to …

TRAP: Test Generation Driven Classification of Analog/RF ICs Using Adaptive Probabilistic Clustering Algorithm

In production testing of analog/RF ICs, application of standard specification-based tests for IC classification is not always an attractive option due to the high costs and test times involved. In this paper, a new test generation algorithm for IC …