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Digital Systems Testing & Testable Design

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I am graduate student in VLSI testing. This book has everything from basics to latest testing techniques. No wonder that the authors took nore than 8 years to complete it. There is no other book in testing which is so comprehensive. If you are begginer or student with some experience in testing this book will best serve your needs.

I am a engineer of automatic control.
This book introduce very important concepts for testing.
9.3 Controllability and Observability is important concepts.
If it is observable, it may not controllable.
Testability, controllability and observability should be analized for testing.
This book is good start point of testing.

I am a engineer of automatic control.
This book introduces very important concepts for testing.
The content is
1. Introduction
2. Modeling
3. Logic simulation
4. Fault modeling
5. Fault simulation
6. Testing for single stuck faults
7. testing for bridging faults
8. functional testing
9. design for testability
10. compression techniques
11. built in self test
12. logic level diagnosis
13. self checking design
14. PLA testing
15. system level diagnosis

9.3 Controllability and Observability is important concepts.
If it is observable, it may not controllable.
Testability, controllability and observability should be analized for testing.
This book is good start point of testing.
At 2010, 10th edition is printing.

This book is not ideal for engineers with very little exposure to digital circuitry. A prior course in digital circuits is essential before getting the most from this text. Once you have a fundamental background, this book is excellent in extending your design knowledge into the testing world. A great design which cannot be tested isn't worth much. This book will reinforce this concept.

I'm taking a graduate course on Digital Systems Testing and this is the professor-designated primary class textbook.

When criticizing a book, it's important to know what the objective, writing style, and target audience of the author is. This book seems to be targeted towards the cream of the crop in the digital testing field.

It's probably one of the most ambiguous and incoherent books I've ever read in my life. It's almost like there was a concerted effort by the authors to omit and muddy certain topics. I get very tense reading the book since I get stuck on single sentences for minutes at a time. One has to read, reread, read, reread, and read. You might still not come out making sense of it. Its also outdated and presents digital topics in a very complicated light. I do not advise you to purchase this book. Sadly, I cannot refer you to other sources as this seems to be the accepted bible on the topic.

One of the pros is it is well sourced... so if you have that kind of time then get the book for the sources and see if those are any better.

Not a good one for the beginners like me. It seems covering the everything in the subject of digital testing, but the author goes very difficult way to explain even simple concepts that are easily explained in some other texts. I guess, if anyone wants to grasp an idea about what is the degital testing then pick "DESIGN for TEST, by ALFRED L. CROUCH" or if you are working enginner in testing industry or the graduate student who plans to write a paper then it will be the one eventually.

This is a very readable book; things are explained clearly. Almost every area of VLSI testing is covered (some in little details, but still covered!). Nice book to build a foundation for more advanced testing courses or just as an introduction into VLSI testing. I love it so much that I bought 2 :) It's a long story.

Concise might be the best word to describe this digital test for logic overview text. Not many examples to get a beginner started, but understood for a graduate level probably. In all, boring, to the point, great to go to sleep over.