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Course contents

  • How to Use This Course
  • DFT Metrics Reference
  • DFT Glossary
  • Reading Path
  • Scan Fundamentals61
  • Compression & Diagnosis61
  • ATPG & Pattern Generation61
  • MBIST & LBIST61
  • Boundary Scan & JTAG61
  • Test Timing & Power61
  • DFT Physical Integration61
  • DFT Interview Prep61
  • DFT / ATPG Cheatsheet
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‹Design for Test
  1. Topics
  2. Design for Test
  3. DFT Glossary

DFT / ATPG · All levels

DFT Glossary

Shared vocabulary for scan, ATPG, BIST, and release reviews.

Terms to use precisely

  • Controllability/observability: ability to set and observe internal states.

  • Compression ratio: reduction of external pattern data via on-chip logic.

  • ATPG constraints: legal test behavior assumptions.

  • Diagnosis: mapping fail signatures to likely defect sites.

  • MBIST/LBIST: embedded memory/logic self-test architectures.

  • EXTEST/INTEST: boundary scan instruction use cases.

  • Release signoff: quality + timing + power + process closure decision.

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  • How to Use This Course
  • Scan Fundamentals
  • Compression & Diagnosis