CE-753: Testability

Last updated: Sunday, October 12, 2008

Course Information

Instructor: Shaahin Hessabi (E-mail: hessabi@sharif.edu)

Textbook: Bushnell and Agrawal, Essentials of Electronic Testing: Digital, Analog, and Mixed-Signal, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 2000.

Credits: 3 Units

Lecture Time: Sundays and Tuesdays: 10:30-11:50 AM

Grading schedule: midterms (30%), projects (30%), Final (40%)
For passing the course, three conditions must be met:
    a) total grade greater than 50%, 60 %, and 70% for B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. students, respectively;
    b) obtaining at least 40% of final exam's grade;
    c) obtaining at least 40% of project's grade.

Projects: will be announced in class

Tentative Schedule of Topics and Lecture Notes. I will use the lecture notes prepared by the book authors, available from http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~bushnell/testbook.html

A modified version of these lecture notes will be used in class, available for students who have enrolled in class.

Topic	Date
Introduction	31^st of Shahrivar
Test Process and ATE	2^nd of Mehr
Test Economics	7^th of Mehr
Yield Analysis & Product Quality	9^th of Mehr
Fault Modeling	14^th of Mehr
Logic Simulation	16^th and 21^st of Mehr
Fault Simulation	23^rd and 25^th of Mehr
Testability Measures	30^th of Mehr
Combinational ATPG Basics	5^th of Aban
First Midterm Exam	7^th of Aban
Redundancy Removal using ATPG	12^th of Aban
Major Combinational ATPG Algorithms, Advanced Combinational ATPG Algorithms	14^th and 19^th of Aban
Sequential Circuit ATPG	21^st of Aban
Design for Testability - Full Scan	26^th and 28^th of Aban
Sample midterm solution, project announcement	3^rd of Azar
Second Midterm Exam	5^th of Azar
Design for Testability - Partial Scan	10^th of Azar
BIST Pattern Generation & Response Compaction, BIST Architectures	12^th and 17^th of Azar
IEEE 1149.1 Boundary Scan Standard	24^th of Azar
scanedu software	26^th of Azar
Project presentations	1^st to 3^rd of Day

Exams

Office Hours

Saturdays: 9-10 AM, 3-4:30 PM
Sundays: 1:30-3 PM
Mondays: 10:30-11:50 AM

Please make an appointment if consultation at a different time is needed. hessabi@sharif.edu