A testable BIST design for PLL

We present a testable built-in self test(BIST) design for phase-lock loop(PLL). The design can measure the clock jitter for PLL with high precision and high accuracy due to better utilization of the test integration and test subtraction techniques. Although the BIST circuit is implemented by all digital standard cells to achieve better reliability, it can even be applied to measure the analog clock jitter. Besides, for some DfT (design for test) techniques inserted to make BIST itself testable, we discuss the trade-off among area, timing, number of test patterns and fault coverage in this paper.

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