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    • Indirect test of M-S circuits using multiple specification band guarding 

      Gómez Pau, Álvaro; Balado Suárez, Luz María; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2016-09-01)
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      Testing analog and mixed-signal circuits is a costly task due to the required test time targets and high end technical resources. Indirect testing methods partially address these issues providing an efficient solution using ...
    • La concurrencia de sistemas basados en microcomputador 

      Alabau Muñoz, Antonio; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, 1978-01)
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    • La Promoció 108 compleix 50 anys (1964-2014): història, entorn i records 

      del Cerro, Jordi; Cusí Cusí, Carles; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Brau, 2014-09-01)
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    • Localization and electrical characterization of interconnect open defects 

      Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Arumi Delgado, Daniel; Figueras Pàmies, Joan; Beverloo, Willem; Vries, Dirk K. de; Eichenberger, Stefan; Volf, Paul A. J. (2010-02)
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      A technique for extracting the electrical and topological parameters of open defects in process monitor lines is presented. The procedure is based on frequency-domain measurements performed at both end points of the ...
    • M-S test based on specification validation using octrees in the measure space 

      Gómez Pau, Álvaro; Balado Suárez, Luz María; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2013)
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      Testing M-S circuits is a difficult task demanding high amount of resources. To overcome these drawbacks, indirect testing methods have been adopted as an efficient solution to perform specification based tests using easy ...
    • Mixed-signal test band guarding using digitally coded indirect measurements 

      Gómez Pau, Álvaro; Balado Suárez, Luz María; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Testing analog and mixed-signal circuits is a costly task due to the required test time targets and high end technical resources. Indirect testing methods partially address these issues providing an efficient solution using ...
    • Multi-directional space tessellation to improve the decision boundary in indirect mixed-signal testing 

      Gómez Pau, Álvaro; Balado Suárez, Luz María; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2017-02-20)
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      One of the most challenging aspects in nowadays microelectronics industry is production test and verification of mixed-signal circuits. In order to cope with some of the drawbacks encountered in this scenario, researchers ...
    • Nondestructive diagnosis of mechanical misalignments in dual axis accelerometers 

      Gómez Pau, Álvaro; Balado Suárez, Luz María; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2013)
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      Microelectromechanical systems production is still an immature technology compared to the classical semiconductor industry. MEMS fabrication and packaging processes may present misalignments which result in an improper ...
    • Parametric Failure Analysis of Embedded SRAMs using Fast & Accurate Dynamic Analysis 

      Vatajelu, Elena Ioana; Panagopoulos, Georgios; Roy, Kaushik; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010)
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    • Post-Bond test of through-silicon vias with open defects 

      Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Arumi Delgado, Daniel; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2014)
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      Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) are critical elements in three dimensional integrated circuits (3-D ICs) and are susceptible to undergo defects at different stages: during their own fabrication, the bonding stage or during ...
    • Postbond test of through-silicon vias with resistive open defects 

      Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Arumi Delgado, Daniel; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2019-07-17)
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      Through-silicon vias (TSVs) technology has attracted industry interest as a way to achieve high bandwidth, and short interconnect delays in nanometer three-dimensional integrated circuits (3-D ICs). However, TSVs are ...
    • Power-aware voltage tuning for STT-MRAM reliability 

      Vatajelu, Elena Ioana; Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Di Carlo, Stefano; Renovell, Michel; Prinetto, Paolo; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      One of the most promising emerging memory technologies is the Spin-Transfer-Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM), due to its high speed, high endurance, low area, low power consumption, and good scaling capability. ...
    • Prebond testing of weak defects in TSVs 

      Arumi Delgado, Daniel; Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2015-08-07)
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      Through-silicon vias (TSVs) are critical elements in 3-D integrated circuits susceptible to defects during fabrication and lifetime. It is desirable to detect defective TSVs in the early steps of the fabrication process ...
    • Process variability in sub-16nm bulk CMOS technology 

      Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio; Figueras Pàmies, Joan; Vatajelu, Elena Ioana; Canal Corretger, Ramon (2012-03-01)
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      The document is part of deliverable D3.6 of the TRAMS Project (EU FP7 248789), of public nature, and shows and justifies the levels of variability used in the research project for sub-18nm bulk CMOS technologies.
    • Quality metrics for mixed-signal indirect testing 

      Gómez Pau, Álvaro; Balado Suárez, Luz María; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (2014)
      Conference report
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    • Quiescent current analysis and experimentation of defective CMOS circuits 

      Segura, J A; Champac, V H; Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Figueras Pàmies, Joan; Rubio Sola, Jose Antonio (1992-12)
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      Physical defects widely encountered in today's CMOS processes (bridges, gate oxide short (gas) and floating gates) are modeled taking into account the topology of the defective circuit and the parameters of the technology. ...
    • Read/write robustness estimation metrics for spin transfer torque (STT) MRAM cell 

      Vatajelu, Elena Ioana; Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Indaco, Marco; Renovell, Michel; Prinetto, Paolo; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      The rapid development of low power, high density, high performance SoCs has pushed the embedded memories to their limits and opened the field to the development of emerging memory technologies. The Spin- Transfer-Torque ...
    • Redes de ordenadores, redes de sistemas, sistemas distribuidos 

      Alabau Muñoz, Antonio; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, 1980-11)
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    • Reliability estimation at block-level granularity of spin-transfer-torque MRAMs 

      Di Carlo, Stefano; Indaco, Marco; Prinetto, Paolo; Vatajelu, Elena Ioana; Rodríguez Montañés, Rosa; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      In recent years, the Spin-Transfer-Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) has emerged as a promising choice for embedded memories due to its reduced read/write latency and high CMOS integration capability. Under ...
    • Robustness of SRAM to Power Supply Noise during Leakage Power Saving in DVS 

      Vatajelu, Elena Ioana; Renovell, Michel; Figueras Pàmies, Joan (IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010)
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