Testing of Analogue Design Rules Using a Digital Interface

Vol.2 No.1

Year: 2008

Issue: Jul-Sep

Title: Testing of Analogue Design Rules Using a Digital Interface   

Author Name: Tom Page, Gisli Thorsteinsson   

Synopsis:   

This paper considers transient response testing of amended analogue macros in mixed-signal systems.  The stimulus employed for transient response testing is a single logic amplitude pulse which can be propagated through a digital interface scan path.  However, the resulting response must either be readily accessible for processing at a primary output or somewhere routed off-chip.  For a number of reasons this is usually considered impractical.  This paper therefore considers the effects of sampling and quantising transient responses and extracting them through a digital scan path.  The aim of this work is then to define a confidence limit in the accuracy of the test measurements obtained as a function of the number of samples taken, the resolution of the quantifier and the quantiser capture range.