Overview - ECE 6140, Digital Systems Test

Topics Covered

1. Introduction to fault simulation and netlist modelling
   1. s-a faults
   2. bridge faults
2. Brute force simulation and fault coverage checking
   1. Fault set reduction through checkpoint faults, equivalent and dominant fault collapsing
3. Deductive fault simulation using fault list propogation
4. Test vector generation via PODEM, C++ code
   1. D-frontier
   2. J-frontier
   3. Backpropagation
5. Analysis of faults in sequential circuits
6. Algorithms for test vector generation
   1. D-Algorithms
   2. PODEM
7. Delay testing
8. LFSR

Relevant Projects

Deductive Fault Simulator and PODEM - Github