What exactly is the At Speed Test ?

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Can someone clearly explain what at speed test is? I have found similar posts on this website but couldn't get to a post where I understood what it is all about.

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Hi,

Normally test clocks have low frequencies. At these frequencies basically you can check the connectivity of the nets (e.g. shorts/opens). However you cannot see the real parasitic effects of a functional clock which has higher frequency than test clocks.

At this point using at-speed-clock, which means running the circuit at its functional frequency, you can gather more information (e.g. path delay) and improve the coverage.

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Gokhan
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At speed test scan generates two clock cycles for the capture cycle at functional frequency.
 

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At speed test are used in analyzing path delay/transition delay of circuit. Normal tests are good to test 'stuck at' faults but they fail in testing timing behavior of circuits.
 

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