The way address sequences and data patterns appear on the outside of a memory may differ from their internal appearance; this effect is referred to as scrambling, which has a large impact on the effectiveness of the u...
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(纸本)0769514537
The way address sequences and data patterns appear on the outside of a memory may differ from their internal appearance; this effect is referred to as scrambling, which has a large impact on the effectiveness of the used tests. This paper presents an analysis of address and data scrambling for memory chips, at the layout and at the electrical level. A method is presented to determine the data backgrounds to be used for the different memory tests. It will be shown that the required data backgrounds are fault model, and hence, also test specific. Industrial results will show the influence of the used data backgrounds on the fault coverage of the tests.
This paper presents all simple (i.e., not linked) static fault models that have been shown to exist for random access memories (RAMs), and shows that none of the current industrial march tests has the capability to de...
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This paper presents all simple (i.e., not linked) static fault models that have been shown to exist for random access memories (RAMs), and shows that none of the current industrial march tests has the capability to detect all these faults. It therefore introduces a new test (March SS), with a test length of 22n, that detects all realistic simple static faults in RAMs.
Most industrial memories have an external word-width of more than one ***, most published memory test algorithms assume 1-bit memories; they will not detect coupling faults between the cells of a *** paper improves up...
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(纸本)9780769514710
Most industrial memories have an external word-width of more than one ***, most published memory test algorithms assume 1-bit memories; they will not detect coupling faults between the cells of a *** paper improves upon the state of the art in testing word-oriented memories by presenting a new method for detecting state coupling faults between cells of the same word, based on the use of m-out-of-n *** result is a reduction in test time, which varies between 20 and 38%.
Numerous studies have indicated that ATM available bit rate (ABR) service can provide low-delay, fairness, and high throughput, and can handle congestion effectively inside the ATM network. However, network congestion...
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Numerous studies have indicated that ATM available bit rate (ABR) service can provide low-delay, fairness, and high throughput, and can handle congestion effectively inside the ATM network. However, network congestion is not really eliminated but rather it is pushed out to the edge of the ATM network, packets from TCP sources competing for the available ATM bandwidth are buffered in the routers or switches at the network edges, causing severe congestion, degraded throughput, and unfairness. This poor performance is mainly due to the uncoordinated interaction between the congestion control mechanism of TCP and ATM. It is well accepted that some form of cooperation at edge device would help to control TCP traffic flow over ATM more effectively. We have previously proposed the fair intelligent explicit window adaptation (FIEWA) scheme and fair intelligent ACK bucket control (FIABC) scheme. The key idea is to combine the feedback information from the receiver, from the underlying ATM network, and from the local information at the edge device intelligently to explicitly/implicitly control the TCP rate. We present a comparative simulation study on our schemes with other established schemes; to identify the characteristics of each different scheme; and to indicate the requirement for a fairer, simpler and more robust coherent approach at the edge device.
The current-voltage characteristics of superconducting Bi-2223 tapes are not as sharp as those of metallic superconductors. This feature, characterized by their low n values especially at high fields and at high tempe...
The current-voltage characteristics of superconducting Bi-2223 tapes are not as sharp as those of metallic superconductors. This feature, characterized by their low n values especially at high fields and at high temperatures, is partly influenced by the sausaging of the superconducting filaments. In order to improve the n values, therefore, the effect of filament sausaging on the transport property was investigated in this research. It was found that the distribution of the thickness of the filaments is of a Gaussian type. The real distribution of the critical current density (Jc) is obtained from the thickness distribution and the apparent distribution of pinning strength estimated using the flux creep-flow model. The estimated real distribution of Jc is slightly sharper than the apparent distribution of Jc. However, the improvement of the n-value is predicted not to be remarkable, even if the filament thickness can be made uniform.
It is known that the irreversibility field depends largely on the electric field criterion, Ec, for the determination of the critical current density. In addition, it was recently found that the vortex glass-liquid tr...
It is known that the irreversibility field depends largely on the electric field criterion, Ec, for the determination of the critical current density. In addition, it was recently found that the vortex glass-liquid transition field determined by the scaling of current-voltage curves also depended on the range of electric field in the measurement. In this paper the two characteristic fields are measured for a Bi-2223 silver-sheathed tape as a function of the electric field. The obtained result of the irreversibility field is compared with the theoretical result of the flux creep-flow model. Based on the agreement with the theoretical model a standard test method of the irreversibility field is proposed.
"Burst mode" is a new cipher mode, which is devised dedicatedly for the high performance implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and other next generation 128-bit block cipher algorithms. In...
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"Burst mode" is a new cipher mode, which is devised dedicatedly for the high performance implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and other next generation 128-bit block cipher algorithms. In comparison with the conventional modes, the burst mode achieves a considerable increase in the throughput by employing a novel stream cipher mechanism which can encrypt 64 plaintext blocks through 16 times of block cipher encryptions. This paper presents a high performance VLSI architecture of burst mode implemented as an accelerator core running in parallel with a block cipher in software. Implementation results show that this burst mode with the use of this hardware accelerator raises the speed of the software implementation by four times, achieving a maximum rate of 3.4 Gbps.
Temporal logic is a valuable tool for specifying correctness properties of reactive programs. With the advent of temporal logic model checkers, it has become an important aid for the verification of concurrent and rea...
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Fault analysis of memory devices using defect injection and simulation is becoming increasingly important as the complexity of memory faulty behavior increases. In this paper this approach is used to study the effects...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769509932
Fault analysis of memory devices using defect injection and simulation is becoming increasingly important as the complexity of memory faulty behavior increases. In this paper this approach is used to study the effects of opens and shorts on the faulty behavior of embedded DRAM (eDRAM) devices produced by Infineon Technologies. The analysis shows the existence of previously defined memory fault models, and establishes new ones. The paper also investigates the concept of dynamic faulty behavior and establishes its importance for memory devices. Conditions to test the newly established fault models are also given.
Memory fault models have always been considered not to change with time. Therefore, tests constructed to detect sensitized faults need not take into consideration the time period between sensitizing and detecting the ...
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Memory fault models have always been considered not to change with time. Therefore, tests constructed to detect sensitized faults need not take into consideration the time period between sensitizing and detecting the fault. In this paper; a new class of memory fault models is presented, where the time between sensitizing and detection should be considered. The paper also presents fault analysis results, based on defect injection and simulation, where transient faults have been observed. The impact of transient faults on testing is discussed and new detection conditions, in combination with a test, are given.
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