FASTKIT—A Software Tool for Easy Design Visibility and Diagnostic Enhancement for Failure Analysis

Abstract The present work is relative to a new software suite that features design comprehension and analogic/logic tracing capability with ease of setup in FA laboratory environment. It also expands and correlates FA measure data to design functionality. With this visibility enhanced environment, we show that FA process can be performed more efficiently. Up to now, very few systems have been built with aim to cover advanced diagnosis setup and real-time navigation with synchronized simulation. We address a general FA software tool which purpose is to automate the design database setup and provide to FA engineer capability to launch reading of all design database including capability of generating new patterns compatible with analytical tools. Based on the flow, we propose a series of tools that will allow the FA engineer to work efficiently.