Chen et al., 2024 - Google Patents

Fault localization on ICs by Function based OBIRCH method

Chen et al., 2024

Document ID
5228296330888258101
Author
Chen X
Xu J
Liu J
He S
Lin X
Shi G
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Publication venue
2024 IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA)

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OBIRCH is commonly utilized in failure analysis of integrated circuit as an electrical fault analysis method, it's based on static electrical test, mainly anomaly from IV characteristics curve. For functional failures, OBIRCH is supposed to be limited since the bias of function …
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