Category: Integrated Circuit

  • ECE5505 Digital Test and Verification Final Project

    This blog post serves as a protal for supplementary materials for the final project report of the course ECE5505 Digital Tesest and Verification 24 Fall. Links are available to be redirected to the specific academic article in PDF format, it should be noted that readers should access those documents within an institution where subscriptions access…

  • ECE5505 Digital Test and Verification Notes Part I

    Introduction This is the blog for VT ECE5505 digital system test and verification course summary, it is currently working as a draft and not finalized. Simulations Fault Simulation Logic Sim Definition given a circuit, fault model, a test set, determine fault coverage determine test set qualityATPG, a vector 1️⃣Serial2️⃣Parallel-fault3️⃣Parallel-pattern4️⃣Deductive Fault Simulation5️⃣Concurrent6️⃣Critical Path Tracing7️⃣Statistical8️⃣Differential9️⃣Combined STAFAN Non-statistical…

  • HotSpot Thermal Model Notes

    Introduction Hotspot has been released to its 7 iteration with multiple updates regarding accurate thermal simulation benchmark. Installation To increase the simulation speed, the SUPERLU package is needed, depending on the various distros with own specifiic package managers, the installation could be different. Once it is installed, hotspot could be compiled. SuperLU I prefer to…