Practice - Comprehensive Fault Detection
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Practice Questions
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What is a scan chain?
💡 Hint: Think about how these flip-flops are arranged.
Name one type of fault that scan chains help identify.
💡 Hint: Consider faults that lock a signal at a specific value.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of fault occurs when an output signal is fixed?
💡 Hint: Consider which faults involve a signal not changing as expected.
True or False: Scan chains cannot detect bridging faults.
💡 Hint: Recall if scan chains have any observable advantages.
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Challenge Problems
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You are tasked with designing a digital circuit that must achieve high fault coverage. Discuss how you would incorporate scan chains into the design and the considerations you would make.
💡 Hint: Think about the trade-offs betweenEase of testing and design complexity.
Critically evaluate how scan chains can impact yield and reliability in manufacturing processes. What potential challenges might you face?
💡 Hint: Consider both the benefits and the drawbacks of increased testing efficiency.
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