Circuit Fault Detection Using Industrial Cadence Software

With technology improvement and growing complexity of micro-electronic circuits, the verification of the system functionality has become one of the major current problems [2]. In the educational context of the engineering Training Pole in Microelectronics located in Toulouse, France (PFMT), several lectures and their associated labs on electronic systems reliability have been recently established. The PFMT regroups students in their last year of studies from five engineering schools and universities. This paper presents (section 2) the main outlines of the lecture concerning on-line/off-line testing methodologies [3], [4], which are nowadays an industrial requirement. Examples of application are also described in section 3.