Inductive contamination analysis (ICA) with SRAM application

Abstract

This paper proposes a new simulation-based fault modeling methodology. The methodology-an extension of Inductive Fault Analysis-uses the contamination-defect-fault simulator CODEF to directly relate effects of process-induced contamination to circuit-level malfunctions. The application of this methodology (called Inductive Contamination Analysis) is demonstrated by development of SRAM fault models.