6. CAD tools
To be feasible, the integration of test devices must not significantly penalize time-to-market. The availability of well-adapted computer-aided design (CAD) tools is therefore essential to reduce development time.
It is not possible to give a complete overview of the CAD offering here. Indeed, such an overview would quickly become obsolete, given the very rapid evolution of both techniques and the companies marketing the tools. Instead, the aim of this section is to identify the main types of tools on the market in 2021.
First of all, it should be noted that the vast majority of commercial tools are limited to offline testing. Classically, the tests cover simple sticking faults at gate level (
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Conferences
Many journals, symposia and conferences in the field of circuit design offer sessions devoted to testing and may be of interest to supplement the information provided in this article:
International test conference (ITC) (United States) ;
VLSI test symposium (VTS) (United States) ;
European test symposium (ETS)...
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IEEE 1149.1 standard and BSDL language (Boundary Scan Description Language)
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