On reducing the target fault list of crosstalk-induced delay faults in synchronous sequential circuits

This paper describes a method of identifying a set of crosstalk-induced delay faults which may need to be tested in synchronous sequential circuits. In this process, the false crosstalk-induced delay faults that need not (and/or can not) be tested in synchronous sequential circuits are also identify. Our method classifies the pairs of aggressor and victim lines, using topological information and timing information, to deduce a set of faults that need to be tested in a sequential circuit. Experimental results for ISCAS’89 benchmark circuits show that the lists of the target faults obtained by the proposed method are sufficiently smaller than the sets of all possible combinations of faults. 1