Digital Logic Testing and Testability

Abstract

Electronic hardware is subject to defects that are introduced at the time of manufacture and failures that occur in the field. Because of the complexity of digital logic circuits, they are difficult to test. This report provides an overview of digital logic testing. It provides access to the literature and unifies terminology and concepts that have evolved in this field. It discusses the types and causes of failures in digital logic. This report presents the topics of logic and fault simulation, fault grading, test generation algorithms, and fault isolation. The discussion of testability measurement is useful for understanding testability requirements and analysis techniques. Design -for-testability and built in test techniques are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA234123

Entities

People

  • Warren H. Debany Jr.

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuit Testers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Digital Circuits
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Logic Gates
  • Printed Circuits
  • Reliability
  • Signal Processing
  • Test Equipment
  • Very Large Scale Integration

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

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  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems