A unified approach for fault simulation of linear mixed-signal circuits

The rapidly evolving role of analog signal processing has spawned off a variety of mixed-signal circuit applications. The integration of the analog and digital circuits has created a lot of concerns in testing these devices. This paper presents an efficient unified fault simulation platform for mixed-signal circuits while accounting for the imprecision in analog signals. While the classical stuck-at fault model is used for the digital part, faults in the analog circuit cover catastrophic as well as parametric defects in the passive and active components. A unified framework is achieved by combining a discretized representation of the analog circuit with the Z-domain representation of the digital part. Due to the imprecise nature of analog signals, an arithmetic distance based fault detection criterion and a statistical measure of digital fault coverage are proposed.

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