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VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing

VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing is a research topic within Hardware and Architecture. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of testing Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits, including techniques such as test data compression, embedded cores testing, scan testing, analog circuit fault diagnosis, BIST schemes, test access architectures, low-power testing, and delay fault testing.

  • Test Data Compression
  • Embedded Cores
  • Scan Testing
  • Analog Circuit Fault Diagnosis
  • BIST Scheme
  • Test Access Architecture
  • Low-Power Testing
  • Test Vector Compression
  • System-on-a-Chip Test
  • Delay Fault Testing
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing

Which countries lead VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (920 and 663 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 920 works
  2. 2 United States 663 works
  3. 3 India 512 works
  4. 4 Germany 187 works
  5. 5 South Korea 153 works
  6. 6 Taiwan 118 works
  7. 7 Japan 114 works
  8. 8 France 94 works
  9. 9 Italy 93 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 68 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 31.5%United States: 22.7%India: 17.5%Germany: 6.4%6 others listed: 21.9%31%largest
China920 · 31.5%United States663 · 22.7%India512 · 17.5%Germany187 · 6.4%6 others listed640 · 21.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Intel (United States) publishes the most VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Samsung (South Korea).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Intel (United States)United States 60 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57 works
  3. 3 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 36 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  5. 5 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 30 works
  6. 6 Fudan UniversityChina 28 works
  7. 7 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 25 works
  8. 8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 24 works
  9. 9 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 24 works
  10. 10 Xidian UniversityChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and John Bannister Goodenough.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing?

The most cited paper in VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing is "Graph-Based Algorithms for Boolean Function Manipulation" (Bryant, 1986), with 8,956 citations. Next come "Asymptotically Efficient Rank Invariant Test Procedures" (3,431) and "Circuit techniques for reducing the effects of op-amp imperfections: autozeroing, correlated double sampling, and chopper stabilization" (1,870).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Graph-Based Algorithms for Boolean Function Manipulation Bryant · IEEE Transactions on Computers Open access Aug 1986 8,956
2 Asymptotically Efficient Rank Invariant Test Procedures Richard Peto, Julian Peto · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) 1972 3,431
3 Circuit techniques for reducing the effects of op-amp imperfections: autozeroing, correlated double sampling, and chopper stabilization Christian Enz, Gábor C. Temes · Proceedings of the IEEE Open access 1996 1,870
4 Binary Decision Diagrams Akers · IEEE Transactions on Computers Jun 1978 1,834
5 On the Connection Assignment Problem of Diagnosable Systems Franco P. Preparata, Gernot Metze, Robert Tien-Wen Chien · IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers Open access Dec 1967 1,508
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Where is VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing research done?

The largest centres of VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Bengaluru (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Clara and Hsinchu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 211 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 103 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 92 works
  4. 4 BengaluruIndia 64 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 63 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 58 works
  7. 7 Santa ClaraUnited States 52 works
  8. 8 HsinchuTaiwan 47 works
  9. 9 HefeiChina 44 works
  10. 10 CoimbatoreIndia 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa ClaraUS · 51.6 works57×
  2. HsinchuTW · 46.6 works16×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Florida and Peking University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…Anhui UniversityPeking UniversityUniversity of Florida
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Chinese University of Hong KongChina 72.342.8%4.6×10 +53.8%
2University of FloridaUnited States 63.816.9%5.5×18 +44.9%
3Peking UniversityChina 62.924.6%3.6×23 +319.4%
4Anhui UniversityChina 62.625.2%11.2×16 +439.6%
5Fudan UniversityChina 54.39.5%5.6×28 +49.2%
6Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 53.63.0%10.0×30 +15.6%
7Politecnico di TorinoItaly 52.916.4%17.3×24 -20.1%
8SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 52.321.5%4.5×14 +440.4%
9Xidian UniversityChina 51.911.4%10.4×24 +206.5%
10University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 50.99.5%7.0×24 +59.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing, country by country

Is VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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