A supply current testable register string DAC of decoder type

In this paper, we propose a supply current testable resistor string DAC of decoder type whose area overhead is small and a supply current test method. Open defects and short ones in the DAC can be detected by the test method with about 50% of the exhausted test vectors. It is shown by some experiments that most of the targeted defects in our testable DACs of 4 and 8 bits can be detected by the test method.

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