Scope
Chips running in the multi-GHz clock ranges and/or including I/O capable of multi-Gbps data rates are now
increasingly common. The production testing and diagnosis of such chips poses significant challenges. Such chip
and system trends are mirrored by new trends in ATE and test methodologies. This TTTC workshop specifically focuses
on problems and solutions related to the test-related issues that arise at such GHz clock and/or Gbps data rates.
GTW'04 will focus precisely on such issues. This workshop will offer a focused forum to experts in the field, as well as
to members of the community with a particular interest in this rapidly expanding problem area.

Areas of Interest include but are not limited to:
• Tester architecture and circuitry to provide and support high-speed analog signal sourcing/generation and response capture/sampling
• Embedded and internal/external (hybrid) schemes and circuits for sourcing and capturing high speed signals
• Low bandwidth testing/testers of GHz/Gpbs circuits
• Low-cost testing/testers of GHz/Gbps circuits
• BIT/BIST for GHz/Gbps circuits
• Jitter generation and analysis techniques, and circuitry using embedded, external, and hybrid circuitry
• Driving and measuring specifications of I/Os with differential signaling
• High-speed/multi-channel test problems and solutions (test fixturing, noise, signal integrity etc)
• On-chip infrastructure IP for accurate on-chip timing, voltage, and current measurements
• Noise modeling and characterization of channels, cabling, sources, receivers, etc.
• Device interface circuitry, and tradeoffs in accuracy and bandwidth
• Tradeoffs between yield, ATE overall timing accuracy (OTA), test environment specifications, and I/O timing specifications
• DFT and design for manufacturing (DFM) of Gbit/s I/Os
• High-speed I/O test power management
• Test stimulus and response data transfer and processing, for go/no-go testing and diagnosis

GTW 2005 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical
Council (TTTC). For more information on GTW 05, visit the workshop website at
http://www.unipi.gr/gtw