Title:

Extending fault periodicity table for testing faults in memories under 20nm

Author:

Harutyunyan Gurgen

Type:

Conference

Co-author(s) :

Shoukourian Samvel ; Vardanian Valery ; Zorian Yervant

Uncontrolled Keywords:

fault periodicity ; March test ; FinFET ; built-in self-test

Abstract:

A new solution for building memory BIST infrastructure, based on rules of fault periodicity and regularity in test algorithms was introduced recently. These rules are represented in a form of a Fault Periodicity Table (FPT) considering both known and unknown memory faults in one table. Each column of FPT corresponds to a fault nature which can be associated with a variety of different test mechanisms while each row of FPT corresponds to a fault family determined by the complexity of fault sensitization. In this paper, application of the proposed methodology for description of memory faults in technologies below 20nm, including 16/14nm FinFET-based memories, is shown. Specifically, it is shown that all recently discovered FinFET-specific faults successfully fit into FPT.

Publisher:

IEEE

DOI:

10.1109/EWDTS.2014.7027088

ISBN:

978-1-4799-7630-0

ORCID:

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Language:

English

Volume:

13

URL:


Affiliation:

Synopsys Armenia

Country:

Ukraine

Year:

2014

Time period:

26-29 September

Conference title:

Proceedings of IEEE East-West Design & Test Symposium (EWDTS 2014)

Place:

Kiev