Supply current test of analogue and mixed signal circuits

IM Bell, SJ Spinks, JM da Silva - IEE Proceedings-Circuits, Devices and Systems, 1996 - IET
Supply current test is well established for digital CMOS circuits and the advantages of
improved observability and reliability indication have prompted its use for analogue and …

Assessing and comparing fault coverage when testing analogue circuits

A Milne, D Taylor, K Naylor - IEE Proceedings-Circuits, Devices and Systems, 1997 - IET
A new technique for calculating fault coverage when testing analogue circuits is presented.
The fault models employed for individual circuit components relate to the importance of …

Mixed current/voltage observation towards effective testing of analog and mixed-signal circuits

JM Da Silva, J Silva Matos, IM Bell… - Journal of Electronic …, 1996 - Springer
Power supply current monitoring is a promising technique for the development of new test
methodologies for analog and mixed-signal circuits. The advantages of efficiency and …

Transient response testing of analogue components in mixed-signal systems: a review

D Taylor - IEE Proceedings-Circuits, Devices and Systems, 1998 - IET
Transient response testing has developed over the last few years from a benchtop
characterisation technique into a very powerful production test technique for all types of …

Transient response testing of nonlinear analogue circuits using optimised fault sets

D Taylor, A Platts - IEE Proceedings-Circuits, Devices and Systems, 2003 - IET
Transient response testing has been shown to be a very powerful and economical functional
test technique for linear analogue cells in mixed-signal systems. Unfortunately not all …

Approaches to on-chip testing of mixed signal macros in ASICs

RA Cobley - Proceedings ED&TC European Design and Test …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper initially researches the use of available low-cost analogue CMOS macros to
perform simple on-chip tests on the Analogue to Digital Converter macro. The results are …

Design for test technique for increasing the resolution of supply current monitoring in analogue circuits

CD Chalk, M Zwolinski - Electronics Letters, 1997 - IET
A design-for-test (DFT) technique for analogue circuits is proposed which splits all high
current transistors into two. This technique reduces the fault-masking effects of the fault-free …

Generating, capturing and processing supply current signatures from analogue macros in mixed-signal ASICs

RJ Binns, D Taylor, TI Pritchard - Microelectronics journal, 1996 - Elsevier
Transient Response Testing is a powerful test technique for analogue macros in mixed-
signal electronic systems which with some enhancement can be particularly useful for …

Built-in-self-test of analogue circuits using optimised fault sets and transient response testing

N Axelos, J Watson, D Taylor… - Proceedings of the Eighth …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transient Response Testing has been shown to be a very powerful and economical
functional test technique for linear analogue cells in mixed-signal systems. Recently this …

Evaluation and comparison of structural test methodologies for analogue and mixed signal circuits

IM Bell, SJ Spinks - … , Circuits and Systems. Surfing the Waves …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years a number of structural (defect orientated) test methodologies have been
proposed for analogue and mixed signal circuits. They potentially provide shorter test times …