A study of bridging defect probabilities on a Pentium (TM) 4 CPU

Presents an experimental study of bridging fault locations on the Intel Pentium (TM) 4 CPU as determined by an inductive fault analysis tool. The study focuses on the location and distribution of probable bridging defects and attempts to explain the findings in the context of the characteristics of the design and its implementation. The coverage obtained against these faults by manually generated functional patterns is compared against that achieved by ATPG vectors.