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A Practical Approach to Fault Simulation and Test Generation for Bridging Faults

Abramovici, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1985 - 
- Vol. 34, Iss: 7, pp 658-663
TLDR
This approach is based on extending fault simulation and test generation for stuck faults to cover bridging faults as well, and shows that adequate bridging fault coverage can be obtained in most cases without using sequences of vectors.
Abstract
In this correspondence we prepent a practical approach to fault simulation and test generation for bridging faults in combinational circuits. Unlike previous work, we consider Unrestricted bridging faults, including those that introduce feedback. Our approach is based on extending fault simulation and test generation for stuck faults to cover bridging faults as well. We consider combinational testing only, and show that adequate bridging fault coverage can be obtained in most cases without using sequences of vectors.

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Current vs. logic testing of gate oxide short, floating gate and bridging failures in cmos

TL;DR: These physical defects widely encountered i n ioday’s CMOS processes, are modelled taking into account t h e topology o f the defective circuit and the parameters of the technology used.
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Detecting bridging faults with stuck-at test sets

TL;DR: A method is described that provides high detection of bridging faults without requiring extensive fault simulation, and a simple solution is to randomly reorder the test vectors to increase toggling and therefore increase bridging fault coverage.
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Accurate modeling and simulation of bridging faults

TL;DR: In this paper, a transistor-level examination of bridging faults and the resulting logic-level bridging fault model are described, and an approach for test pattern generation and fault simulation is presented.
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The concept of resistance interval: a new parametric model for realistic resistive bridging fault

TL;DR: A new parametric bridging fault model is proposed allowing to realistically represent the faulty behavior according to the intrinsic resistance which is not known a priori.
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Resistive bridge fault modeling, simulation and test generation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model of resistive bridging faults and studied the fault coverage on ISCAS85 circuits of different test sets using resistive and zero-ohm bridges at different supply voltages.
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Enhancing Testability of Large-Scale Integrated Circuits via Test Points and Additional Logic

TL;DR: With the increasing complexity of logic that can be fabricated on a single large-scale integrated (LSI) circuit chip, there is a growing problem of checking the logical behavior of the chips at manufacture.
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A Deductive Method for Simulating Faults in Logic Circuits

TL;DR: A deductive method of fault simulation is described, which "deduces" the faults defected by a test at the same time that it simulates explicitly only the good behavior of logic circuit.
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Critical Path Tracing: An Alternative to Fault Simulation

TL;DR: Critical path tracing determines fault detection without explicit fault simulation, and appears to be a more efficient alternative to conventional methods.
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Bridging and Stuck-At Faults

TL;DR: The commonly used stuck-at fault fails to model logic circuit shorts, so Bridging faults are defined to model these circuit mal-functions.
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Concurrent simulation of nearly identical digital networks

E. G. Ulrich, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1974 - 
TL;DR: Test patterns for testing digital circuits are usually checked on a test verification program to determine if all or most of the possible faults will be detected.