VLSI Test Principles And Architectures: Design for Testability

This book is a fundamental VLSI Testing and Design-for-Testability (DFT) textbook allowing undergraduates, DFT practitioners, and VLSI designers to learn quickly the basic VLSI Test concepts, principles, and architectures, for test and diagnosis of digital, memory, and analog/mixed-signal designs. VLSI Testing is very basic to the semiconductor industry and is something that almost everyone in the industry needs to have some knowledge of. It is often not sufficiently covered in undergraduate curricula; therefore this book fill the gap in this area for both students and professionals in semiconductor manufacturing, design, systems, electronic design automation (EDA), etc. As 100 million transistor designs are now common, test costs are 25-40% of the overall cost of manufacturing a chip and how a chip is designed greatly impacts the cost of test. As such, it is important for designers and managers to understand the concepts and principles of testing and design-for-test techniques.

??? Covers the entire spectrum of VLSI testing from digital, analog, to memory circuits, and fault diagnosis and self-repair from digital to memory circuits.
??? Discusses future test technology trends and challenges facing the nanometer design era.
??? Companion CD-ROM contains a version of SynTest's software for student use.