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xxxxxx Digital Systems Verification and Test
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Instructor: Ian G. Harris
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Goals: This course will provide an overview of issues related to the testing and reliability of VLSI circuits. The first part of the course will be dedicated to learning the basics of manufacturing test and design validation including fault simulation, fault modeling, and automatic test generation. The midterm and the problem sets will be devoted to these topics. The second part of the course will be research-oriented involving the reading and presentation of current research in test. Each student will be required to complete a final project and will be expected to write a paper on that project. Most projects will be group projects but individual projects are also possible. Each student will also be expected to give two presentations during the course of the quarter, one on the previous work related to their final project, and another on their final project itself.
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Book: Michael Bushnell and Vishwani Agrawal, Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory, and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Requirements:
  • Problem Sets (2): 30%
  • Tests (2): 35%
  • Final Project: 35%
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Time/Place: TuTh 9:30-10:50, CS 253
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Prerequisites: An undergaduate-level course in Digital Logic Design and Computer Architecture/Hardware Organization