IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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Improved IDDQ design-for-testability technique to detect CMOS stuck-open faults
Afzel Noore
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2007 Volume 4 Issue 3 Pages 94-99

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This paper presents a novel design-for-testability technique to reliably detect stuck-open faults in CMOS complex gates. The modified design uses an additional pair of transistors to establish a constant saturation current IDDQ through the transistors under test. Variations in current level are monitored using a built-in current sensor to detect the presence of stuck-open faults. Circuit simulations verify that the proposed design is also resilient to time skews caused by unequal delays in circuit paths.

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