Patterns that exercise the chip's functions as in normal operation, generated from design simulation or test benches, used where structural tests cannot cover a function or interface.
Test Work product in the Test program and ATE development lifecycle
It covers behaviour that scan and memory tests do not reach, such as interfaces and analog-digital interaction. Without it, functional defects escape or are caught only at system-level test.
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