Defect Tolerance

Technical Activity Committee on DEFECT TOLERANCE

TAC Chair: Vincenzo PIURI, piuri@elet.polimi.it
TAC Vice-Chairs: Cecilia METRA, cmetra@deis.unibo.it
Nohpill PARK, npark@a.cs.okstate.edu

Defect Tolerance deals with a broad range of highly specialized topics in several theoretical, practical, and application areas of defect and fault tolerance in VLSI devices and systems. Main problems addressed by the committee include:

    Analysis of defect distributions and prediction in VLSI devices and systems,
  • Yield analysis and prediction,
  • Yield enhancement, production planning and production process management,
  • Design techniques and methodologies for yield enhancement of VLSI/WSI devices and systems,
  • Design techniques and methodologies to embed testing strategies and supports in the VLSI IC for defect detection and localization,
  • Configurable VLSI architectures to support defect confinement and enhance the yield,
  • Life-time detection and correction techniques, methodologies and supports to detect the presence of errors due to faults and correct them in VLSI devices and systems,
  • Design of self-checking VLSI/WSI architectures,
  • Reconfigurable VLSI/WSI architectures to confine life-time faults,
  • Fault tolerant VLSI/WSI systems,
  • CAD for fault-tolerant VLSI/WSI design and analysis,
  • High-level synthesis and co-design techniques for fault tolerant VLSI architectures,

…and many more.

This TAC is highly committed to present and disseminate the most relevant results of academic and industrial research and practice in the above areas.

In particular, the Defect Tolerance TAC organizes the annual International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, special sessions in other workshops and conferences, special issues in international journals, tutorials, and cooperate in organizing the International On-line Testing Workshop.

References

  •  IEEE Proceedings of the International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, S. Francisco, CA, USA, 2001
  • IEEE Proceedings of the Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2001 (special session on VLSI)
  • Proceedings of the Euromicro Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems, Ischia, Italy, 2002 (special session on Test)
  • Special Issue on Function Integrated Information Systems, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2001
  • IEEE Proceedings of the Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Anchorage, AK, USA, 2002 (special session on “Recent trends in test synthesis in VLSI”, “Hybrid and fault-tolerant sensor systems”, “Resilient computing for instrumentation and distributed sensors in harsh environments”)
  • Special Issue on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Journal of System Architectures, Elsevier Publisher, 2002

 

Upcoming conferences and symposia

IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2024
Paper registration: October 9, 2023
Paper PDF upload: October 15, 2023
Questions to authors: December 9, 2023
Submission of rebuttal: December 14, 2023
Notification: December 23, 2023
Camera-ready upload: February 03, 2024

ITC 2023
Paper title/abstract due: March 20, 2023 extended to April 3, 2023
Paper final PDF due: April 3, 2023 extended to April 17, 2023
Author notification: June 12, 2023 delayed until June 23, 2023
Final manuscript due: July 17, 2023
Authors are also invited to submit a single-page poster prop

IOLTS 2023
Title and Abstract registration: March 23, 2023
Paper submission: March 27, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023
Camera Ready: June 07, 2023

19th IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects (SELSE) 2023
Paper registration: December 23, 2022
Paper submission: January 9, 2023

IEEE European Test Symposium 2023
Title+Abstract: December 9, 2022
Paper: December 16, 2022

DATE 2023
Title+abstract: September 18, 2022 (AoE)
Paper: September 25, 2022 (AoE)

IEEE Asian Test Symposium 2022
Abstract & Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2022 (AoE)

ITC India 2022
Abstract & Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 9th, 2022

LATS 2022
Title+abstract: May 6, 2022
Paper: May 13, 2022