Circuit screening system and circuit screening method
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsChi-Che Wu, Tsung-Yang Hung, Jia-Ming Guo, Yi-Na Fang, Ming-Yih Wang
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Abstract
A circuit screening system including a target circuit under test receiving a first testing signal in a first period and a second testing signal in a second period; and a clock generating circuit providing a clock signal to the target circuit under test, the clock signal triggering the target circuit under test to receive the first testing signal in the first period and the second testing signal in the second period; the clock signal having a first profile and a second profile in the first period and the second period, respectively, and the first profile and the second profile having a phase difference.
Claims20
A circuit screening system, comprising:
- a target circuit under test, configured to receive a first testing signal in a first period, and a second testing signal in a second period after the first period;
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- a clock generating circuit, configured to provide a clock signal to the target circuit under test;
- wherein the clock signal has a first profile and a second profile in the first period and the second period, respectively, and the first profile and the second profile has a phase difference;
- wherein the phase difference between the first profile and the second profile are 90 degrees.
A circuit screening system, comprising:
- a target circuit under test, including a plurality of flip-flops in cascade connection and a cluster of logic circuits coupled to the flip-flops;
- a power circuit, configured to provide a supply voltage to the target circuit under test, wherein a voltage level of the supply voltage is located in an input range in a first period, deviates from the input range in a second period after the first period, and located in the input range in a third period after the second period;
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- a clock generating circuit, arranged to provide a clock signal to the target circuit under test;
- wherein the clock signal has a first profile and a second profile in the first period and the third period, respectively, and the first profile and the second profile has a phase difference.
A circuit screening method, comprising:
- operating in a first input stage, in which a first testing signal is inputted into a target circuit under test, and a clock signal having a first profile is provided to the target circuit under test;
- operating in a second input stage after the first input stage, in which a second testing signal different from the first testing signal is inputted into the test target circuit under test, and a clock signal having a second profile different from the first profile is provided to the target circuit under test;
- wherein the first profile and the second profile has a phase difference;
- wherein in the first input stage and the second input stage, a supply voltage, whose voltage level locates in an input range, is provided to the target circuit under test, and the circuit screening method further comprises:
- operating in a first stress stage after the first input stage, in which the voltage level of the supply voltage locates in a stress range higher than the input range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.