Course detail
Diagnostics and Testing of Electronic Systems
FEKT-BDTSAcad. year: 2018/2019
Diagnosis and testing of electronic circuits. Failure modes. Detection and fault location. Failure classification and mechanisms of disorders. Diagnostic system. Physical methods of technical diagnostics. Functional methods of technical diagnostics. Diagnosing analog circuits. Diagnosis of digital circuits. Built-in test systems, boundary scan, logic analyzers. Designing circuits for testability and diagnostic ability.
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individual device analysis ....... 15 points
final test ............................... 70 points
Course curriculum
Failure classification of electronic components, integrated circuits
Methods for diagnosing ELT. equipment
Measurement errors and their causes
Practical examples of diagnosis of electrical circuits
The feedback systems (sources, amplifiers), stability
Practical examples of diagnostic feedback circuit
Diagnosis and testing of digital circuits. Faults in logic circuits. Diagnosing faults in logic systems, modeling faults, testing of logic circuits, Boolean difference, creating tests for combinational circuits.
Built-in test systems (BIST) and Boundary Scan (JTAG)
Diagnosing analog signals
Proposal with regard to diagnostic ability, testing embedded systems - Development Models
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Hurst L.S.: VLSI testing, The Institution of EE, London, 1998 (EN)
Mourad S.: Principles of Testing Electronic Systems, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2000 (EN)
Recommended reading
Uyemura J.P.: Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 (EN)
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2. Fault types of electronic components, integrated circuits - degradation mechanisms and cause malfunction. Terminology disorders. Disorders of passive and active components of electronic circuits. Disorders of integrated circuits. Causes of failures in the connecting system. Fault types neoživeného equipment. Number of single and multiple failures in a combinational network. Disorders of CMOS circuits.
3. Physical and function methods of the technical diagnostics. Mathematical models of diagnostic objects. Diagnostic tests. Forms of diagnostics. Periodic diagnostics. Continuous diagnostics. Display diagnostic test using a table, a procedure of testing. Detection testing. Localization testing. Graphic display diagnostic test using the tree. Build a set of faults, fault models, build diagnostic tests.
4. Methodology of practical procedure for the diagnosis of electrotechnical equipment division circuits, difficulties in measuring electrical variables
5. Practical examples of diagnosis of the electrical circuits
6. The feedback systems (sources, amplifiers), stability issue
7. Practical examples of diagnostic feedback circuit
8. Diagnosis and testing of digital circuits. Faults in logic circuits. Diagnosing faults in logic systems, faults modeling, testing of logic circuits, Boolean difference, creating tests for combinational circuits.
9. Applications of functional diagnostics methods on objects with analog variables. The functional block diagram and logic diagram diagnostic facility with analog signals. Solution-oriented diagnostic tasks using cause-effect graphs for objects with analog signals.
10. Diagnosis and testing of digital circuits. Faults in logic circuits. Diagnosing faults in logical systems. Generation of structural tests. Functional tests. Test generation using Boolean difference.
11. Built-in test systems (BIST) and Boundary Scan (JTAG) - history, principles, description by BSDL
12. Circuit design for easy diagnosis. Development of design methods for easy diagnosis. Structured design. Heuristic design. Built-in diagnostic tools. Diagnostic tests written to memory. Autonomic testing generated in real time. Generating pseudotriviálních tests. Failsafe. Security system. Fail safe circuits. Totally self-checking circuits. Other security methods.
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Failures analysis in basic blocks of the operational amplifier
Failures analysis in audio amplifier circuit, measuring of the parameters
Failures analysis in linear power supply circuit, measuring of the parameters
Basic measurements with logic analyzer, measuring of the gates delay
Analysis of communication with the logic analyzer, standard communication protocols 1
Analysis of communication with the logic analyzer, common communication protocols 2
The analysis of digital systems using a logic analyzer - a digital thermometer