Multi-condition alternate test of analog, mixed-signal, and RF systems

Trabajo presentado al 13th LATW celebrado en Quito del 10 al 13 de abril de 2012.This work proposes a generic path to improve Alternate Test strategies. It demonstrates that multi-condition test increases the amount of information present in the test data and consequently decreases the prediction error of the trained models. The ambition of this paper is to be a methodological contribution to the field of AMS-RF test, and formal guidelines are provided that justify the interest of the approach. For the sake of validation, the proposed methodology has been applied to several alternate test strategies for analog, mixed signal, and RF circuits. Promising results are found for the following case studies: an analog filter, a Σ∆ A/D converter, and an RF LNA.This work has been partially funded by a CSIC JAE-Doc contract (cofinanced by FSE), the Junta de Andalucia project P09-TIC-5386, the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad project TEC2011-28302, both of them cofinanced by the FEDER program, and Catrene project TOETS (CT302).Peer reviewe