PT Unknown
AU Stellari, F
   Song, P
TI Testing of ultra low voltage CMOS microprocessors using the superconducting single-photon detector (SSPD)
SE Proc. 12[super:th] IPFA
PY 2005
BP 2
DI 10.1109/IPFA.2005.1469119
DE SSPD; CMOS testing
AB In F. Stellari and P. Song (2004) the authors have shown a comparison among different detectors used for diagnosing integrated circuits (ICs) by means of the PICA method. In their experiments they used two versions of the SSPD detector (p-SSPD is a prototype version, while c-SSPD is the first commercially available generation of the detector as presented in W. K. Lo et al. (2002), as well as the imaging detector (S-25 photo-multiplier tube (PMT) as discussed in W. G. McMullan (1987)) used in the conventional PICA technique. A microprocessor chip fabricated in a 0.13 μm 1.2 V technology is used to show that c-SSPD provides a significant reduction in acquisition time for the collection of optical waveforms from chips running at very low. In this paper, the authors summarize the main results.
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