Detection of Crosstalk Faults in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)

Abstract

In this work, a Built-in-Self-Test (BIST) technique has been proposed to detect crosstalk faults in FPGA and run time congestion and to provide the crosstalk aware router for FPGA. The proposed BIST circuits require less overhead as compared to earlier techniques. The proposed detector can detect any logic hazard or delay due to crosstalk. A technique has also been proposed to avoid the crosstalk by routing the path in such a way that no interference occurs between the interconnects. The proposed router has achieved better utilization of routing resource to determine the net as compared to the earlier works. The proposed scheme is simulated in MATLAB and verified using Xilinx ISE tools and Modelsim 6.0. The router is implemented by using class provided by JBits for Xilinx, Vertex-II FPGA. It has been found that the results are quite encouraging.