Li-Ren Huang, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Jing-Yang Jou, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Sy-Yen Kuo, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
One major drawback of the LFSR-based BIST is its low fault coverage. To obtain the complete fault coverage, multiple seeds and multiple polynomials are usually required. One way to find the seeds and polynomials for the LFSR was utilizing the Gauss-elimination procedure. In this approach, the test patterns which are generated by LFSR are modeled as a set of multivariable linear equations. It is created from a given deterministic test set. The corresponding seed and polynomial are then obtained from the solution of this equations set. However, given the original deterministic test set without don't cares, it were not acceptable on the random pattern resistant circuits. In this paper, we allow the test patterns to have don't care values. With an intelligent heuristic of further utilizing the essential faults, this approach becomes much more efficient even for the random pattern resistant circuits. The experimental results on the ISCAS-85 and the ISCAS-89 benchmarks show that a significant improvement can be obtained both on the hardware overhead and the test length.
Index Terms:
built-in self test; PRPG; essential fault; LFSR; fault coverage; multiple seed; multiple polynomial; Gauss elimination; pseudorandom test pattern; multivariable linear equation; deterministic test set; random pattern resistant circuit; don't care value; intelligent heuristic; ISCAS-85 benchmark; ISCAS-89 benchmark; hardware overhead; test length; BIST
Citation:
Li-Ren Huang, Jing-Yang Jou, Sy-Yen Kuo, "An Efficient PRPG Strategy By Utilizing Essential Faults," ats, pp.199, Fifth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'96), 1996