A Simplified Six-Waveform Type Method for Delay Fault Testing

A new, simplified waveform method is presented for delay fault testing. The method enables accurate calculation of a delay fault detection threshold for definitely detectable faults, and a delay fault range for possibly detectable faults. The method is shown to correctly classify definitely detectable faults which are mis-classified by methods recently reported elsewhere [1] [2]. A quantitative delay fault model with variable fault size is used, and the effect of the delay fault is explicitly described by the new waveform method. The calculation of the detectable delay size threshold occurs in linear time for any definitely detectable fault.

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