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26th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008)
Reducing Scan Shift Power at RTL
April 27-May 01
ISBN: 0-7695-3123-7
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| Elif Alpaslan, Yu Huang, Xijiang Lin, Wu-Tung Cheng, Jennifer Dworak, "Reducing Scan Shift Power at RTL," VLSI Test Symposium, IEEE, pp. 139-146, 26th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008), 2008. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/VTS.2008.36, author = {Elif Alpaslan and Yu Huang and Xijiang Lin and Wu-Tung Cheng and Jennifer Dworak}, title = {Reducing Scan Shift Power at RTL}, journal ={VLSI Test Symposium, IEEE}, volume = {0}, year = {2008}, issn = {1093-0167}, pages = {139-146}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2008.36}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - VLSI Test Symposium, IEEE TI - Reducing Scan Shift Power at RTL SN - 1093-0167 SP139 EP146 A1 - Elif Alpaslan, A1 - Yu Huang, A1 - Xijiang Lin, A1 - Wu-Tung Cheng, A1 - Jennifer Dworak, PY - 2008 KW - Scan Based Test KW - Test Power Reduction KW - Power-Sensitive Scan Cell KW - RTL DFT KW - Timing Closure VL - 0 JA - VLSI Test Symposium, IEEE ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2008.36
Power consumption during scan-based test becomes a concern in nanometer technologies. Previous test power reduction techniques that insert additional logic in gate-level circuits may result in timing violations. In this paper, we show that the problem can be solved at the RTL instead so that the timing and area constraints will be handled automatically by synthesis tools. Using a signal probabilistic approach proposed previously, we identify power-sensitive scan cells at the prototyping gate level, and we map these cells to their corresponding signal / variable bits at the RT-Level. Additional RTL code is added to freeze these power sensitive bits in order to reduce scan shift power consumption. Experimental results on ITC99 benchmarks show that on average more than 22% power reduction can be achieved when we only freeze the top 1% of power-sensitive bits at RTL. The flow is more practical in terms of timing closure than doing the same at the gate-level.
Index Terms:
Scan Based Test, Test Power Reduction, Power-Sensitive Scan Cell, RTL DFT, Timing Closure
Citation:
Elif Alpaslan, Yu Huang, Xijiang Lin, Wu-Tung Cheng, Jennifer Dworak, "Reducing Scan Shift Power at RTL," vts, pp.139-146, 26th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008), 2008
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