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| Title | Power supply current monitoring techniques for testing PLLs |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 1997 |
| Authors | Dalmia, M., A. Ivanov, and S. Tabatabaei |
| Conference Name | Test Symposium, 1997. (ATS '97) Proceedings., 6th Asian |
| Pagination | 366 -371 |
| Date Published | nov. |
| Keywords | analogue circuit testing, analogue integrated circuits, automatic testing, Circuit analysis computing, current testing, digital IC, electric current measurement, fault detection, fault diagnosis, integrated circuit testing, mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits, mixed-signal ICs, Monte Carlo methods, nonlinear circuits, phase locked loops, phase-locked loops, PLL testing, power supply current monitoring, VCO testing |
| Abstract | The effectiveness of current testing for digital IC's has led researchers to explore the possibility of extending this concept to testing analog blocks of mixed-signal ICs. Unfortunately, test techniques developed for commonly-studied analog blocks such as op-amps and filters do not apply to non-linear blocks such as phase-locked loops. This paper focuses on investigating the effectiveness of using an operating power supply current monitoring technique to detect potential faults in a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ATS.1997.643984 |
| DOI | 10.1109/ATS.1997.643984 |