Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits (Frontiers in Electronic Testing, 17)

It seems to me it is just a summary of work done by others inthe ATE field over the years. The explanations of how a devicefault is detected are not clear in most of the cases presentedin the book. The book emphasizes too much on faultmodeling but not enough on test applications and techniques.Certainly not a good text book for students nor itis a good book for ATE engineers. However, if you are lookingfor some quick reference, this book is a good place to startbecause it contains brief summaries of other people's work.

I loved the clarity of the book. It's very easy to follow. Agreed that it tries to cover a lot of topics and naturally will not go very deep into everything that you want. But definitely a great book to pick up and get all of your fundamentals and more strengthened.If you find anything wrong in the book, you can email the authors and they would promptly address it in the next version.

I got this book to see what the authors had to say about harmonic distortion and mixed signal testing. It turns out that most of that information is taken from Matt Mahoney's book, DSP Based Testing. In addition, it has errors all over the place. The memory test info is detailed but not useful, filling pages and pages with nothing useful. The info I was looking for was WRONG, but not unexpectedly since most books are wrong when it comes to harmonics. I had higher hopes for this book, but it was quite disappointing. You can't reach Professor Bushnell anymore because he's retired. I've written far better works myself on test and I don't even have a degree!

"Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits", by M. L. Bushnell and V. D. Agrawal, is often thought of as the Bible for DFT. This voluminous book has a lot of details and caters to newbies and professionals alike.The authors do a good job of taking elementary combinational circuits and illustrate how to determine fault equivalence, fault collapsing etc. These basic topics are not covered sufficiently in other books. Also, the problem sets at the end of each chapter are well thought out and working out these problems by hand will help you understand better the functionality of EDA tools.

Beware!! If you buy the one that was published in 2013 you will be paying almost 3 times the price than the one published in 2005. But here is the thing, it's the exact same edition published in different years! Also, the book is quite outdated, talks about 100 million transistor per chip and 1 GHz processor clock speed! I suggest wait for the next edition and meanwhile learn from journals and conference papers, at least you'll get updated info!