Simulation-Based Diagnostic Model for Automatic Testability Analysis of Analog Circuits

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems 2018-07, Vol.37 (7), p.1483-1493
• Main Authors: Tang, Xiaofeng, Xu, Aiqiang, Li, Ruifeng, Zhu, Min, Dai, Jinling
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Analog circuit; Analog circuits; Analytical models; Circuit faults; classification; Computational modeling; cross-validation; Data models; fault diagnosis; Integrated circuit modeling; Measurement; simulation-based diagnostic model (SDM); testability analysis (TA)
• ISSN: 0278-0070; 1937-4151
• DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2017.2762647

A novel data-driven simulation-based diagnostic model is proposed to realize automatic and practical testability analysis (TA) of analog circuits. With this model and the corresponding methods, sufficient faults can be handily injected into the circuit under test and then be simulated to construct the sample data. Using these data, a kernel density estimation on {K} -nearest neighbors classification algorithm and its leave-one-out cross-validation method are studied to evaluate the testability metrics. To handle the possible high false alarm caused by the faults that have similar samples with the fault-free case, two strategies are carried out by ignoring the faults in the ambiguity groups or/and using the posterior weights to determine the final classification results. Furthermore, a sample compression approach is proposed to reduce the computational cost. Experimental results show that more accurate and reasonable TA and verification can be achieved by comparing with the traditional testability models and the state-of-the-art classification methods. And the diagnostic application against a real circuit based on the simulation data can also reach a satisfactory level.