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VTS 2024 Final Program

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10:15

Regular Session 1: Considerations for ML Accelerator Reliability (MU 230 PIMA)

Session Chair: Ilia Polian (Stuttgart)

Analyzing and Mitigating Circuit Aging Effects in Deep Learning Accelerators
Speaker: Sanjay DAS
Authors: Sanjay DAS, Shamik KUNDU, Anand MENON (University of Texas at Dallas), Shubha KHAREL, Yihui REN (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Kanad BASU (University of Texas at Dallas)

On the Sensitivity of Analog Artificial Neural Network Models to Process Variation
Speaker: Yiorgos MAKRIS
Authors: Nosheen AFROZ, Ahmad Sayeed SAYEM, Georgios VOLANIS (UT Dallas), Dzmitry MALIUK (Yale University), Haralampos STRATIGOPOULOS (Sorbonne Univ., CNRS, LIP6), Yiorgos MAKRIS (UT Dallas)

Analyzing the Impact of Scheduling Policies on the Reliability of GPUs running CNN operations
Speaker: Robert LIMAS SIERRA
Authors: Robert LIMAS SIERRA, Francesco PESSIA, Juan GUERRERO, Josie RODRIGUEZ CONDIA, Matteo SONZA REORDA (Politecnico di Torino)

Special Session 1: Radiation Testing (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Hugh Barnaby (ASU)
Session Chair: Adalin Benedetto (Alphacore Inc)

Total Ionizing Dose Radiation Effects - Mechanisms and Test Structure Design
Speaker: Hugh Barnaby (ASU)

Single Event Effects - Mechanisms and Test Structure Design
Speaker: Daniel Loveless (UTC)

Radiation Hardness Assurance Testing
Speaker: Gregory R Allen (JPL)

IP Session 1: Analog Testing Technologies for Digital Exploding Societies (MU 242 La Paz)

Organizer: Haruo Kobayashi (Gunma University)
Session Chair: Haruo Kobayashi (Gunma University)

Development of 13fsrms Low Jitter 1GHz Crystal Oscillator for ATE Reference Clock
Speaker: Naoki Tsukahara (Advantest)

Sub-ns Testing Using SAR Time-to-Digital Converter
Speaker: Keno Sato (ROHM Semiconductor)

ADC Diagnosis by Exploiting LMS Digital Calibration
Speaker: Takashi Oshima (Hitachi Ltd)


11:15

Regular Session 2: High Quality Test (MU 242 La Paz)

Session Chair: Maheshwar Chandrasekar (Synopsys)

Customizing ATPG User-Defined Stresses and Tests To Target Cell-Neighborhood-Bridging Defects
Speaker: Stephen TRAYNOR
Authors: Stephen TRAYNOR (NXP), Saidapet RAMESH, Lawrence HERR, Maryfe HERNANDEZ, Scott CHEN (NXP Semiconductors)

Test Compaction Using (k,1)-Cycle Tests
Speaker: Irith POMERANZ
Authors: Irith POMERANZ (Purdue University)

Scenario-based Test Content Optimization: Scan-Test vs. System-Level Test
Speaker: Nourhan ELHAMAWY
Authors: Nourhan ELHAMAWY, Jens ANDERS, Ilia POLIAN (University of Stuttgart), Matthias SAUER (Advantest)

Special Session 2: mm-Wave Antena Test and Calibration (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Georgios Trichopoulos (ASU)
Session Chair: Jennifer Kitchen (ASU)

Characterization of Millimeter-wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Using a Near-Field Measurement Setup
Speaker: Aditya Shekhawat (ASU)

Millimeter-wave and THz Measurement Practices
Speaker: Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh (ASU)

Rapid measurements of Antenna-in-Package (AiP) scaling from mmWave to Sub-THz
Speaker: Christian Muresan (NI/Emerson)

Multi-Parameter Optimization of mm-Wave Antenna Layout Using Hybrid Modeling and Incremental Model Learning
Speaker: Ferhat Can Ataman (ASU)

IP Session 2: Silent Data Corruption (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Arani Sinha (Intel)
Session Chair: Adit Singh (Auburn U)

‘Si’lent Data Errors – Detection and Resilience
Speaker: Shubhada Sahasrabudhe (Intel)

Addressing Silent Data Corruption Challenges
Speaker: Yervant Zorian (Synopsys)


14:30

Regular Session 3: Validation and Simulation (MU 228 Cochise)

Session Chair: Ujjwal Guin (Auburn U)

A Method for Simulating Mixed-Signal ATE Tests
Speaker: Stephen SUNTER
Authors: Stephen SUNTER (Siemens Digital Industries Software), Vladimir ZIVKOVIC (Infineon), Bartlomiej PRASELSKI (Siemens Digital Industries Software)

Testing a Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric: Challenges and Solutions
Speaker: Apurva JAIN
Authors: Apurva JAIN, Thomas BROADFOOT, Carl SECHEN (The University of Texas at Dallas), Yiorgos MAKRIS (UT Dallas)

Logic-AAA: Debug of Logic Failures with an on-ATE Expert System
Speaker: Chris NIGH
Authors: Chris NIGH (Carnegie Mellon University), Shawn BLANTON (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, USA)

Special Session 3: Reliability on Semiconductors & In-Memory Computing Hardware (MU 242 La Paz)

Organizer: Daphne Chen (ASU)
Session Chair: Daphne Chen (ASU)

From the Invisible to the Indispensable: Nitrogen-Vacancy Magnetometry for Higher Yield and Reliability in Semiconductors
Speaker: Umberto Celano (ASU)

Empowering analog computing with high precision
Speaker: Wenhao Song (USC)

A Test Platform for Characterizing Emerging Nonvolatile Memories for Computing
Speaker: Matthew Marinella (ASU)

Practical Considerations on ESD Testing
Speaker: Albert Wang (UCR)

Regular Session 4: Test of Emerging Technologies (MU 230 PIMA)

Session Chair: Yi Sun (NXP)

Characterization of 14nm CMOS Technology At Cryogenic Temperatures Using Dense Addressable Arrays
Speaker: Raphael ROBERTAZZI
Authors: Raphael ROBERTAZZI, David FRANK, John TIMMERWILKE, Kevin TIEN (IBM Research), Peilin SONG (IBM Corp.), Daniel FRIEDMAN (IBM Research)

Reliability analysis and mitigation for analog computation-in-memory: from technology to application
Speaker: Mahta MAYAHINIA
Authors: Mahta MAYAHINIA (KIT university), Haneen G. HEZAYYIN, Mehdi TAHOORI (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)


16:00

Regular Session 5: Security & Black Boxes (MU 242 La Paz)

Session Chair: Shaikh, Saghir (Intel)

Fuzz Wars: The Voltage Awakens - Voltage-Guided Blackbox Fuzzing on FPGAs
Speaker: Jonas KRAUTTER
Authors: Kai SU (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences), Mark Leon GIRAUD (Fraunhofer IOSB), Anne BORCHERDING (Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB), Jonas KRAUTTER (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Philipp NENNINGER (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences), Mehdi TAHOORI (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

A Novel Self-referencing Approach Using Memory Power-up States for Detecting COTS SRAMs
Speaker: Zakia Tamanna TISHA
Authors: Gaines ODOM, Zakia Tamanna TISHA, Ujjwal GUIN (Auburn University)

Static Gate-Level Information Flow for Hardware Information Security with Bounded Model Checking
Speaker: Jiaji HE
Authors: Yiqiang ZHAO, Gongsen QU, Qizhi ZHANG, Yao LI, Zhengyang LI, Jiaji HE (Tianjin University)

Special Session 4: Cool Chips with Chiplets (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Partha Pratim Pande (WSU)
Session Chair: Leslie Hwang (ASU)

Thermal Modeling and Management Challenges in Heterogenous Integration: 2.5D Chiplet Platforms and Beyond
Speaker: Umit Ogras (UWisc)

Reliable Network-on-Interposer Design for CNN Inferencing in Presence of Defective Chiplets
Speaker: Partha Pande (WSU)

Overcoming Communication Bottlenecks in Scale-out Machine Learning with Silicon Photonic 2.5D Interposer Networks
Speaker: Sudeep Pasricha (CSU)

Special Session 5: Testing for Radiation Effects in Microelectronics (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Adalin Benedetto (Alphacore)
Session Chair: Andrew Levy (Alphacore)

Total Ionizing Dose Testing of Alphacore’s ADC with ASU’s Cobalt-60 GammaCell
Speaker: Adalin Benedetto (Alphacore)

Test Methods for Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Capacitors
Speaker: Chandru Ramamurthy (Alphacore)

Neutron Single Event Characterization and Simulation Fidelity for a CCD Imager
Speaker: Merritt Miller (Fifth Gait)


18:00

Wine and Cheese Reception & Panel (College Avenue Commons 3rd Floor Atrium)


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: What is it, who does it benefit, what works and what does not to increase DEI in the tech workspace?
Moderator: Jennifer Blain Christen (ASU)
Panelists: Bahadir Erimli (Cadence),
Zachary Holman (ASU),
Antonio de la Serna (Siemens EDA),
Danielle Ferguson-Macklin (Teradyne),
KT Moore (Cadence),
Lorie Burmood (NXP)
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09:15

Regular Session 6: Fault Tolerance for ML Accelerators (MU 230 PIMA)

Session Chair: Yiorgos Makris (UTD)

Error Resilient Hyperdimensional Computing Using Hypervector Encoding and Cross-Clustering
Speaker: Mohamed MEJRI
Authors: Mohamed MEJRI, Chandramouli AMARNATH, Abhijit CHATTERJEE (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Drop-Connect as a Fault-Tolerance Approach for RRAM-based Deep Neural Network Accelerators
Speaker: Mingyuan XIANG
Authors: Mingyuan XIANG, Xuhan XIE (Univeristy of Chicago), Pedro SAVARESE (TTI-Chicago), Xin YUAN (Univeristy of Chicago), Michael MAIRE, Yanjing LI (University of Chicago)

NN-ECC: Embedding Error Correction Codes in Neural Network Weight Memories using Multi-task Learning
Speaker: Surendra HEMARAM
Authors: Soyed Tuhin AHMED, Surendra HEMARAM, Mehdi TAHOORI (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Special Session 6: Reliability Assessment Recipes for DNN Accelerators (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Maksim Jenihhin (TalTech, Estonia)
Session Chair: Seth Abraham (ASU)

Hybrid Analytical and Hierarchical FI-based Reliability Assessment for Systolic-Array-Based DNN Accelerators
Speaker: Maksim Jenihhin (TalTech, Estonia)

Mixing techniques for the Reliability Assessment of in-chip AI accelerators in GPUs
Speaker: Josie Esteban RODRIGUEZ CONDIA ( POLITO, Italy)

Reliability Assessment of DNN Hardware Accelerators through Physical Fault Injection”
Speaker: Fernandes DOS SANTOS (INRIA, France)

IP Session 3: Test and Functional Safety Standards (MU 242 La Paz)

Organizer: Arani Sinha (Intel)
Session Chair: Arani Sinha (Intel)

What can I expect from the refresh of IEEE 1687?
Speaker: Martin Keim (Siemens-EDA)

P2427 analog defect modeling, improved by 967 ballot comments
Speaker: Steve Sunter (Siemens-EDA)

IEEE P2851.1 - The standardization initiative for the enablement of functional safety interoperability with reliability
Speaker: Jyotika Athavale (Synopsys)


10:45

Regular Session 7: In-field Reliability (MU 228 Cochise)

Session Chair: Daniel Gulick (ASU)

Sequential Decoders for Binary Linear Block ECCs
Speaker: Valentin GHERMAN
Authors: Valentin GHERMAN, Cyrille LAFFOND (CEA LIST)

Temperature-Insensitive Soft-Error-Tolerant Flip-Flop Design For Automotive Electronics
Speaker: Yen-Ju SU
Authors: Ralf E.-H. YEE, Yen-Ju SU, Lowry P.-T. WANG, Charles H.-P. WEN, Herming CHIUEH (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Enhanced Wear-Out Sensor Design in a 12nm Process for Separable Stress Regime Monitoring
Speaker: Ian HILL
Authors: Ian HILL, Mateo RENDóN, Andre IVANOV (University of British Columbia)

Special Session 7: Silicon Lifecycle Management (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Gurgen Harutyunyan (Synopsys)
Session Chair:

Addressing the Combined Effect of Transistor and Interconnect Aging in SRAM Towards Silicon Lifecycle Management
Speaker: Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

An Efficient Lifecycle Test & Repair Infrastructure for Addressing Lifetime-Induced Faults in CAMs
Speaker: Bhrugurajsinh Chudasama (Intel)

Advanced SLM Sensors for Monitoring Degradation of Emerging Memories
Speaker: Fabian Vargas (IHP Microelectronics)

Special Session 8: VLSI Functional Safety (MU 242 La Paz)

Organizer: Gulroz Singh (NXP)
Session Chair: Jim Plusquellic (UNM)

Automotive Requirements from a Semiconductor Perspective
Speaker: Mahesh Kumarasamy (Samsung)

Unified Functional Safety Framework for Advanced Multi-domain SoCs combining ISO26262 & IEC 61508
Speaker: Gulroz Singh (NXP)

Functional Safety landscape for IPs
Speaker: Ankush Sethi (NXP)


13:00

Ph.D. Competition (MU 230 PIMA)

  • Ishaan Bassi - Arizona State University
  • Md Toufiq Hasan Anik - University of Maryland
  • Shamik Kundu - UT Dallas
  • Vineeth Amritur Niranjan - University of Texas at Dallas
  • Zain Ul Abideen - Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ahmed Abed Benbük - Arizona State University
  • Shao-Chun Hung - Duke University

14:00

Regular Session 8: Testing Resistive Memories & Sensors (MU 228 Cochise)

Session Chair: Jennifer Blain Christen (ASU)

Calibration and Source Localization Using an Array of Resistive Metal Oxide Gas Sensors
Speaker: Ishaan BASSI
Authors: Ishaan BASSI, Sule OZEV (Arizona State University)

Multi-Level Reference for Test Coverage Enhancement of Resistive-Based NVM
Speaker: Sina BAKHTAVARI MAMAGHANI
Authors: Sina BAKHTAVARI MAMAGHANI (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jongsin YUN, Martin KEIM (Siemens Digital Industries Software), Mehdi TAHOORI (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Testing and Fault Diagnosis for Multi-level Resistive Random-Access Memory in Monolithic 3D Integration
Speaker: Shao-Chun HUNG
Authors: Shao-Chun HUNG (Duke Unicersity), Partho BHOUMIK, Krishnendu CHAKRABARTY (Arizona State University)

Special Session 9: Ensuring Reliability & Security of AI through HLS4ML (MU 242 La Paz)

Organizer: Seda Ogrenci (NWU)
Session Chair:

AIN Sputtering Parameter Estimation Using A Multichannel Parallel DCT Neural Network
Speaker: Ahmet Enis Cetin (UIC)

A High Level Synthesis Methodology for Dynamic Monitoring of FPGA ML Accelerators
Speaker: Seda Ogrenci (NWU)

Reliable edge machine learning hardware for scientific applications
Speaker: Nhan Tran (Fermilab)

IP Session 4: AI applications in test (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Arani Sinha (Intel)
Session Chair: Stefano Di Carlo (Politecnico di Torino)

AI In Test: Applications of Traditional ML and GenAI for Product Development
Speaker: Abhijit Sathaye (Intel)

Optimizing manufacturing test in volume production
Speaker: Sashi Obilisetty (Synopsys)

AI Era Semiconductor Testing: AI/ML Use Cases from Wafer to System-Level Testing
Speaker: Keith Schaub (Advantest)

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09:15

Regular Session 9: ML-Based Reliability Evaluation (MU 242 La Paz)

Session Chair: Suvadeep Banerjee (Intel)

Evaluating the Reliability of Supervised Compression for Split Computing
Speaker: Juan GUERRERO
Authors: Juan GUERRERO, Josie RODRIGUEZ CONDIA (Politecnico di Torino), Marco LEVORATO (University of California Irvine), Matteo SONZA REORDA (Politecnico di Torino)

Transformer and Its Variants for Identifying Good Dice in Bad Neighborhoods
Speaker: Cheng-Che LU
Authors: Cheng-Che LU, Chi-Chih CHANG, Chia-Heng YEN (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Shuo-Wen CHANG, Ying-Hua CHU (Qualcomm Inc.), Kai-Chiang WU, Mango CHAO (National Chiao Tung University)

WaferCap: Open Classification of Wafer Map Patterns using Deep Capsule Network
Speaker: Abhishek Kumar MISHRA
Authors: Abhishek Kumar MISHRA (Drexel University), Mohammad Ershad SHAIK (The University of Texas at Austin), Anush LINGAMOORTHY, Suman KUMAR, Anup Kumar DAS, Nagarajan KANDASAMY (Drexel University), Nur TOUBA (University of Texas at Austin)

Special Session 10: Analog Calibration (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Ahmet Tekin (Bogazici Univeristy)
Session Chair: Bertan Bakkaloglu (ASU)

Machine Learning Based Static and Dynamic Error Calibration in Data Converters
Speaker: Arindam Sanyal (ASU)

Power-up Self Auto Calibration of High Speed SAR Converter in a 22nm FD-SOI CMOS Process
Speaker: Ahmet Tekin (Bogazici Univeristy)

High Precision Adaptive Calibration Feedback in RF Front-end for Digital Pre-distortion Application
Speaker: Emre Ulusoy (TUBITAK BILGEM)

PArtificial Intelligence Based High Power Calibration Method for RF Pulse Amplifiers
Speaker: A. Eroglu

IP Session 5: Chiplet Interconnect Test and Repair (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Sreejit Chakravarty (Ampere Computing)
Session Chair: Sreejit Chakravarty (Ampere Computing)

Challenges of Chiplet Interconnect Test and Repair and where Standardization will help
Speaker: Pradipta Ghosh (Microsoft)

Silicon health management for multi-die systems
Speaker: Yervant Zorian (Synopsys)

Introducing IEEE P3405 and the chiplet interconnect test and repair standardization effort
Speaker: Sreejit Chakravarty (Ampere Computing)


10:45

Regular Session 10: BIST (MU 242 La Paz)

Session Chair: Prab Varma (Veda DS Inc.)

A Storage Based LBIST Scheme for Logic Diagnosis
Speaker: Subashini GOPALSAMY
Authors: Subashini GOPALSAMY, Irith POMERANZ (Purdue University)

Built in self test for RSFQ circuit
Speaker: Mingye LI
Authors: Mingye LI, Yunkun LIN, Sandeep GUPTA (University of Southern California)

Structural Built In Self Test of Analog Circuits using ON/OFF Keying and Delay Monitors
Speaker: Suhas KRISHNA KASHYAP
Authors: Suhas KRISHNA KASHYAP (Arizona state university), Chinmaye RAGHAVENDRA (Arizona State University), Suriyaprakash NATARAJAN (Intel Corporation), Sule OZEV (Arizona State University)

Special Session 11: Gen. AI for Chip Design (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Vidya Chhabria and Jeff Zhang (ASU)
Session Chair: Jeff Zhang (ASU)

ChipeNeMo: Domain-Adapted LLM for Chip Design
Speaker: Mingjie Liu (NVIDIA)

CircuitOps and OpenROAD: An Infrastructure for ML EDA Research and Education
Speaker: Vidya Chhabria (ASU)

LLMs for Hardware Design and Security: Boon or Bane
Speaker: Jeyavijayan "JV" Rajendran (TAMU)

LLMs and Foundation Models for Chip Design: The Good, the Backdoors and the Ugly
Speaker: Siddharth Garg (NYU)

IP Session 6: Using AI to Address the Silicon Growth Curve (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Duane Brown (Advantest)
Session Chair: Duane Brown (Advantest)

Leveraging AI/ML to Design, Manufacture, and Test Advanced AI/ML Chips
Speaker: Ira Leventhal (Advantest)

AI For Test Optimization Early in Design Phase for Reduction in Test Patterns and Design Schedules
Speaker: Sri Ganta (Synopsys)

Revolutionizing Semiconductor Testing: The Fusion of LLMs like GPT-4 and Human Expertise
Speaker: Keith Schaub (Advantest)


14:00

Special Session 12: IEEE Std P3405: Standard-under-Development for Chiplet Interconnect Test/Repair (MU 228 Cochise)

Organizer: Erik Jan Marinissen (IMEC)
Session Chair: Saket Kumar Goyal (Broadcom)

Analysis of Multi-Chiplet Package Designs & Requirements for Production Test Simplification
Speaker: Mike Kelly (Amkor Technology USA)

Chiplet Interconnect Repair Logic Description with Google’s Protocol Buffers
Speaker: Po-Yao Chuang and Erik Jan Marinissen (IMEC)

How IEEE Std P3405 Enables EDA Interoperability
Speaker: Martin Keim (Siemens)

IP Session 7: Yield Optimization (MU 242 La Paz)

Organizer: Carl Moore (YieldHub)
Session Chair: Carl Moore (YieldHub)

Information is key to yield improvement
Speaker: Carl Moore (YieldHub)

Sustainable Yield Improvement
Speaker: John O'Donnell (YieldHub)

Test Hardware Design
Speaker: Jory Twitchell (NXP)

IP Session 8: Advances on Silicon Lifecycle Reliability, Safety and Security (MU 230 PIMA)

Organizer: Fei Su (Intel)
Session Chair: Sashi Obilisetty (Synopsys)

Addressing In-Field Dependability Challenges with SLM
Speaker: Jyotika Athavale (Synopsys)

Leveraging deep data analytics at test for lifetime reliability, performance and safety
Speaker: Zohaib Khan (ProteanTecs)

Scalable Physical Attacks on chips
Speaker: Marc Witteman (Riscure)


15:00

Panel: Naturally Dumb Test Methods: Tried and failed methods as a learning experience (MU 230 PIMA)

Have you ever had a brilliant idea that you were eager to try? After long hours and many iterations, you realized that the approach was a failure no matter how you looked at your data. You investigated what went wrong and found out. In hindsight, it should have been obvious that the proposed technique wouldn’t work. So, you filed it away to never speak of it again… until now… Would you like to share your experience so that others don’t have to make the same mistake? More importantly, as a seasoned engineer, would you show young professionals that it’s OK to explore failed methods. That is the most basic form of training your neural network.
Moderator: Jelani Horne (Keysight) Panelists: Ray Sessego (NXP)
Stephen Sunter (Siemens EDA)
Carl Moore (YieldHub)
Rob Aitken (Synopsys)