Objective
This project aims to increase European Integrated Circuits (IC) quality and competitiveness by developing generic test instruments and interfaces which will drasticly improve the testability and reliability of ICs.
Presently, production testing of ICs is done by large and expensive Automated Test Equipment (ATE). A disadvantage of this approach is that while the production cost of a transistor decreases with each new technology node, the cost to test these transistors remains flat or increases, especially for ICs with analogue, RF or sensors components. If test was built-in the chip and therefore part of the silicon it would ensure that the benefits of silicon scaling to new technology nodes translate to benefits in test cost. The concept of Built-In Self Test (BIST) is a well-known test solution for digital logic and memories but it is still in its infancy for analogue, RF and sensors. Although solutions do exist for these analogue, RF and sensor blocks they are typically point solutions and only applicable to that specific block. While it does reduce recurring test cost it will increase design and test development costs. Moreover it increases the time to market and risks since a new test solution has to be made
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloids
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Call for proposal
ENIAC-2011-1
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Coordinator
5656AG Eindhoven
Netherlands
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Participants (15)
38000 Grenoble
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91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette
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44300 Nantes
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8024 HA Zwolle
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-5612AN Eindhoven
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5691SM Son
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38130 Echirolles
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38000 Grenoble
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38000 Grenoble
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9500 Villach
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75015 PARIS 15
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38031 Grenoble Cedex 1
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75794 Paris
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4200 465 Porto
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7522 NB Enschede
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