The greedy specification testing remains mandatory for analog and Radio Frequency (RF) integrated circuits because of the accuracy of the sorting based on these measurements. Unfortunately, to be implemented, this kind of testing method often incurs very high costs (expensive instruments, long test time...). A common approach, in the literature, is the so-called indirect/alternate test strategy...

In this paper, a fast transient testing methodology for predicting the performance parameters of analog circuits is presented. A transient test signal is applied to the circuit under (cut) test and the transient response of the circuit is sampled and analyzed to predict the circuit’s performance parameters. An algorithm for generating the optimum transient test signal is presented. The methodol...

This paper describes part of the conversion of WVU's analog power simulator into a micro-grid-of-the-future test bed. The simulator is a hardware representation of the grid which contains traditional hardware, both digital and analog. It is important to note that this simulator is a hardware implementation, and as such is capable of testing smart grid ideas in the most realistic setting availab...

OBJECTIVE To correlate patient reports of olfactory dysfunction after surgical intervention for allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) with endoscopic findings, psychophysical testing, and quality-of-life scores. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING A tertiary care rhinology clinic at St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. PATIENTS Eighty-one patients with AFRS seen...

The objective of this thesis is to develop an analog architecture, which distributes decentralized, highly dependable and self-reliant tasks within a mixed-signal multi-core System-on-Chip. Hence, every step of the design process and their results to develop such an analog system are presented, since the synthesis of analog circuits is still mostly done manually, contrary to the almost fully au...

Aristoteles (384-322) verwendete den Begriff „geometrische Analogie“ zur Beschreibung der Gleichheit zweier quantitativer oder qualitativer Verhältnisse [Co02]. Beispiele: „1 verhält sich zu 2 wie 5 zu 10“ oder „Die Federn sind für den Vogel, was die Schuppen für den Fisch sind“. Eine informatische Modellierung beginnt manchmal mit der Formulierung qualitativer geometrischer Analogien. Ein Beis...

The paper investigates and compares the performances of two state-of-the-art MultiHarmonic Sine Fitting (MHSF) algorithms when used in the dynamic testing of an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC). The influence of the initial estimate of the test signal frequency on the uncertainty of the estimated ADC dynamic parameters is analyzed by using computer simulations. Moreover, the accuracies of the ...

Partitioning a digital circuit into modules before implementing on a single chip is key to balancing between test cost and test correctness of built-in current testing (BICT). Most partitioning methods use statistic analysis to find the threshold value and then to determine the size of a module. These methods are rigid and inflexible since IDDQ testing requires the measurement of an analog quan...