Bringing test to design: testing in the designer's event based environment

R. Rajsuman1
1Advantest America Research and Development Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Tóm tắt

In this paper, we present a new tester that works in the IC designer's simulation environment instead of traditional ATE test environment. The tester uses IC simulation data from a Verilog or VHDL simulator in the vcd format. The basic tester architecture and its operation are described.

Từ khóa

#Circuit testing #Integrated circuit testing #Design engineering #Costs #Circuit simulation #Hardware design languages #Timing #Signal design #Integrated circuit modeling #Computer architecture

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