1998
DOI: 10.1109/43.736192
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Oscillation and sequential behavior caused by opens in the routing in digital CMOS circuits

Abstract: Shorts and opens are the most common types of catastrophic defects in today's CMOS ICs. In this paper we show that an open in the interconnect wiring of a digital CMOS circuit, which permanently disconnects inputs of logic gates from their driver, can cause oscillation or sequential behavior. We present supporting experimental data collected by creating an interconnect open in a manufactured chip. We also show that the conditions for oscillation and sequential behavior are likely to occur in many interconnect … Show more

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“…In addition to the sequential behavior, an interconnect open can also oscillate under certain conditions as explained in more detail in 23,13]. Oscillation can occur due to capacitance from a signal S to the oating wire FW, such that there is an inverting combinational path from FW to S, and that path is enabled by the given vector.…”
Section: Voltage Sensing (Stuck-at Detection)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition to the sequential behavior, an interconnect open can also oscillate under certain conditions as explained in more detail in 23,13]. Oscillation can occur due to capacitance from a signal S to the oating wire FW, such that there is an inverting combinational path from FW to S, and that path is enabled by the given vector.…”
Section: Voltage Sensing (Stuck-at Detection)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the subsequent two rounds, {N1} and {N2, N3} are identified respectively. Node N 4 is identified in the fourth round along with the ( 5) if L does not belong to any compacted class ( 6) place X on L ( 7) for all the vectors, simulate the fanout cone of L ( 8) create a new compacted class C ( 9) insert L into C (10) examine each line M in the candidate list after L (11) if M has X value for all test vectors (12) place M into C (13) set L to be the representative member of C (14) compile a output matching statistics and attach to C (15) restore the logic values in the circuit (16) children for {N3} and {N2} (not shown in figure). At the end of the Phase I, all the successful leaves are examined to extract tuples of candidate classes.…”
Section: Search Treementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is due to the different threshold values of the gates at the fan-outs, which depend on various layout and physical parameters [5,8], which are commonly not available to logic level diagnostic tools. Opens can also cause sequential behaviors by creating capacitive feedback paths [9]. We only investigate opens with infinite resistance in this work, as in [12,17].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Predicting the behaviour of open defects is challenging and difficult. What is more, interconnect opens may cause oscillation or sequential behaviour due to feedback capacitive couplings [68]. The capacitive feedback is due to either wire-to-wire capacitance or to Miller feedback capacitances from within a single logic gate.…”
Section: Byzantine General's Problem In Open Faults In a Similar Way ...mentioning
confidence: 99%