New March Elements for Address Decoder Open and Resistive Open Fault Detection in SRAMs

Authors

  • L. Dilillo
  • P. Girard
  • S. Pravossoudovitch
  • A. Virazel
  • S. Borri
  • M. Bastian

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29292/jics.v3i1.276

Keywords:

Memory testing, address decoder, dynamic faults, open and resistive-open defects

Abstract

This paper presents a complete analysis of the ability of March tests to detect ADOFs (Address Decoder Open Faults) and resistive-ADOFs in address decoders of embedded-SRAMs. Such faults are the primary target of this study because they are notoriously hard-to-detect. With this study, we show that standard March tests without modifications are not able to detect them and we propose to translate the algorithm presented in [1, 2] into March elements. These new March elements involve a particular address sequence and data to be written. For this purpose, we have exploited some Degrees of Freedom of the March tests (DOF I and IV) in order to generate these new March elements for ADOFs detection. Compared to the previous March solutions, these new March elements ensure the fault observation.

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Published

2020-11-18