Course detail
Diagnostics and testing of electronic systems
FEKT-BDTSAcad. year: 2012/2013
Diagnosis and testing of electronic circuits. Failure modes. Detection and fault location. Failure classification and mechanisms of disorders. Diagnostic system. Physical methods of technical diagnostics. Functional methods of technical diagnostics. Diagnosing analog circuits. Diagnosis of digital circuits. Built-in test systems, boundary scan, logic analyzers. Designing circuits for testability and diagnostic ability.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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individual device analysis ....... 15 points
final test ............................. 70 points
Course curriculum
Failure classification of electronic components, integrated circuits
Methods for diagnosing ELT. equipment
Measurement errors and their causes
Practical examples of diagnosis of electrical circuits
The feedback systems (sources, amplifiers), stability
Practical examples of diagnostic feedback circuit
Diagnosis and testing of digital circuits. Faults in logic circuits. Diagnosing faults in logic systems, modeling faults, testing of logic circuits, Boolean difference, creating tests for combinational circuits.
Built-in test systems (BIST) and Boundary Scan (JTAG)
Diagnosing analog signals
Proposal with regard to diagnostic ability, testing embedded systems - Development Models
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Hurst L.S.: VLSI testing, The Institution of EE, London, 1998 (EN)
Mourad S.: Principles of Testing Electronic Systems, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2000 (EN)
Recommended reading
Uyemura J.P.: Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 (EN)
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Diagnostics system. On-line and off-line diagnostics.
Types of failures, failures mechanisms. Failures of passive and active elements of electronic circuits. Failures of integrated circuits. CMOS circuits failures.
Physical and function methods of technical diagnostics. Mathematical models of diagnostics objects. Diagnostics tests and forms of diagnostics. Tests generation.
The functional diagnostics methods application on the objects with analog variables.
Diagnostics and testing of digital circuits. Structural test generation. Functional tests. Test pattern generation of the circuits described by high level language.
Automatic test pattern generation. Test pattern optimisation and compression of diagnostics data. Signature analysis.
Desgn for diagnostics. Structural design. Built-in diagnostics means.
Diagnostics and testing of digital integrated circuits. Testing of microprocessors and microcomputers.
Diagnostics and testing of analog circuits. Diagnostics and testing of analog and mixed integrated circuits. CMOS analog IC testing.
Test equipments of electronic systems. Test equipments of integrated circuits. Test equipments of elecctronic boards. In-circuit testers. Boundary-scan testers and analyzers. ASA Tester.
Signature analyzers and their arrangement. Signature analysis diagnosis methods. Signature analysis of microprocessors systems.
Logic analyzers. State and time analysis. Triggering. Selective tracing. Results viewing. Using logic analyzer in microprocessors systems. Up to date logic analyzers parameters.
Exercise in computer lab
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Test pattern generation.
Fault modeling and simulation of analog circuits.
CMOS defects modeling.
Diagnostics of standard CMOS logic cells.
Diagnostics of standard CMOS analog cells.