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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2010
Jose M Martinez, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Chandramouli Visweswariah, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Francis Woytowich, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Jinjun Xiong, White Plains, NY (US);
Jose M Martinez, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Chandramouli Visweswariah, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Francis Woytowich, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Jinjun Xiong, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for selecting voltage and frequency levels for use in at-speed testing. One embodiment of a method for selecting a set of test conditions with which to test an integrated circuit chip includes formulating a statistical optimization problem and obtaining a solution to the statistical optimization problem, where the solution is the set of test conditions.