SRAM cell stability has become an important design and test issue owing tu significant process spreads, non-ideal operational conditions, and subtle manufacturing defects in scaled-down geometries. In this article, we carry out an extensive SRAM SNM sensitivity analysis and propose an SRAM cell stability fault model for weak cell detection. This fault model is used fo design and veri& a proposed digitally pmgrammable design-for-test (DFI') technique targeting the weak cell detection in embedded SRAMs (eSRAM).