An all-digital DFT scheme for testing catastrophic faults in PLLs

Traditional functional testing of mixed-signal ICs is slow and requires costly, dedicated test equipment. The authors update the standard PLL architecture to allow simple digital testing. The all-digital strategy yields catastrophic fault coverage as high as that of the classical functional test, plus it is fast, extremely simple to implement, and requires only standard digital test equipment.

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