SUMMARY A design-for-testability method and an electrical interconnect test method are proposed to detect open defects occurring at interconnects among dies and input/output pins in 3D stacked ICs. As part of the design method, an nMOS and a diode are added to each input interconnect. The test method is based on measuring the quiescent current that is made to flow through an interconnect to be tested. The testability is examined both by SPICE simulation and by experimentation.
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