March tests have been widely used for detecting functional faults during SRAM testing. Recent development has extended the March test for diagnostic purpose to locate and identify the fault types. This paper analyses March algorithms for detection and diagnosis of Stuck-At Faults (SAFs) and Transition Faults (TFs). Unfortunately, the algorithms under studied are not able to distinguish between ...

We describe a time-e cient procedure for removing sequentially redundant faults from synchronous sequential circuits with synchronizing sequences. We use properties of redundant faults and propose several methods to identify subsets of redundant faults that can be removed simultaneously from the circuit. By removing several redundant faults simultaneously, the number of repetitions of the test ...

In this paper, the noise of electric motors is analyzed in order to obtain information for the detection of faults. Significant noise spectrum differences between healthy motor and motors with different faults are observed. The faults analyzed are bad bearing in the three phase induction motor and broken bars in single phase induction motor. The high-frequency spectral analysis of noise provide...

The new memory technologies and processes are introducing defects that cause faults that were unknown previously. One of the new observed faults in real designs are called dynamic faults. The paper gives a mathematical analysis of such a fault class based on the fault primitive concept. The dynamic fault space will be then established; within this space dynamic functional fault models can be st...

We perform dynamic simulations of thrust and normal faults over multiple earthquake cycles. Our goal is to explore effects of asymmetric fault geometry on the long-term seismicity and dynamics of dipping faults. A dynamic finite-element method is used to model the interseismic and coseismic processes, with a dynamic relaxation technique for the former. The faults are loaded by stable sliding al...

Identifiability of sensor gain faults is studied and a novel approach to fault detection and diagnosis of a class of nonlinear systems is presented. Sensor gain faults are divided into two classes: the conditionally identifiable faults and the conditionally detectable faults. An algorithm is proposed to obtain the number and location of the conditionally identifiable faults. Asymptotic estimati...

This paper studies single-fault fault collapsing in sequential logic circuits. Two major phenomena, self-hiding (SH) and delayed reconvergence (DR), which arise from the existence of feedback paths and storage elements in sequential circuits, are analyzed and found to cause the dominance relationship which is valid in combinational circuits but no longer valid in sequential circuits. A fault-co...

common use is the distinction into two (abstract) fault models: A new fault modelling scheme for integrated analogue general the "Single Hard Fault Model (SHFM)" and the CMOS circuits referred to as Local Layout Realistic Fault Mapping is introduced. It is aimed at realistic fault 1 assumptions prior to the final layout by investigating typical “local” layout structures of analogue designs. Spe...

By simulating a multi-terminal high voltage DC grid using a detailed electro-magnetic transient simulation model, challenges in fault detection and discrimination are demonstrated. To select the most appropriate signal for fast and reliable detection of faults, behavior of the DC grid during the faults is observed by means of various terminal measurements. By simulating different scenarios, cha...