Testing of Analogue Circuits via (Standard) Digital Gates
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چکیده
The possibility of using window comparators for onchip (and potentially on-line) response evaluation of analogue circuits is investigated. No additional analogue test inputs are required and the additional circuitry can be realised either by means of standard digital gates taken from an available library or by full custom designed gates to obtain an observation window tailored to the application. With this approach, the test overhead can be kept extremely low. Due to the low gate capacitance also the load on the observed nodes is very low. Simulation results for some examples show that 100% of all assumed layout-realistic faults could be detected.
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