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A New Approach to the Design of Testable PLA's
February 1987 (vol. 36 no. 2)
pp. 201-211
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S.M. Reddy, null Dong Sam Ha, "A New Approach to the Design of Testable PLA's," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 201-211, February, 1987.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TC.1987.1676882,
author = {S.M. Reddy and null Dong Sam Ha},
title = {A New Approach to the Design of Testable PLA's},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers},
volume = {36},
number = {2},
issn = {0018-9340},
year = {1987},
pages = {201-211},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TC.1987.1676882},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Computers
TI - A New Approach to the Design of Testable PLA's
IS - 2
SN - 0018-9340
SP201
EP211
EPD - 201-211
A1 - S.M. Reddy,
A1 - null Dong Sam Ha,
PY - 1987
KW - testing
KW - Fault detection
KW - multiple faults
KW - programmable logic array (PLA)
KW - testable design
VL - 36
JA - IEEE Transactions on Computers
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S.M. Reddy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa
Programmable logic arrays (PLA's) are extensively used to realize area efficient combinational logic circuits. As the size of the PLA's increases, a cost-effective way to test them is to realize testable PLA's. In this paper a new approach to the design of testable PLA's is presented. The proposed method leads to testable PLA's with minimal area penalty and small number of tests that can be obtained as a by-product of the synthesis procedure, or can be directly obtained from the personality of the PLA's, thus simplifying the test derivation step. Results of an experiment involving 56 PLA's, to compare the test set sizes of differenit testable PLA designs (including the design proposed here) as well as the size of tests derived to detect single faults by algorithmic procedures are also reported.
Index Terms:
testing, Fault detection, multiple faults, programmable logic array (PLA), testable design
Citation:
S.M. Reddy, null Dong Sam Ha, "A New Approach to the Design of Testable PLA's," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 201-211, Feb. 1987, doi:10.1109/TC.1987.1676882
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