ECE 5505 - Testing and Verification of Digital Systems (3C)

Various topics on digital circuit testing and verification. 5505: digital circuit testing including simulation, test pattern generation, design for testability, built-in-self-test, and diagnosis.

5505 will provide the fundamental and state-of-the-art methods and knowledge on testing of digital systems, and 5506 will provide the fundamental and state-of-the-art techniques and knowledge for verification of electronic systems. As the number of gates on a chip increases drastically, testing of the manufactured chip becomes an important issue in circuit and system design. In order to test circuits/systems effectively, computer engineers need to understand various techniques of circuit testing. 5505 meets the need by teaching both basic and advanced concepts and underlying theories of circuit testing from the system level down through the gate level. Design verification has recently become a bottle-neck in the design process. Failure to detect errors early in the design stage can be prohibitively expensive to change late in the cycle. 5506, the verification portion of the course, emphasizes techniques and approaches to efficiently check if the circuit implementation is correct.