Test compression/decompression is an efficient method for reducing the test application cost. In this paper we propose a test generation method for obtaining test-patterns suitable to test compression by statistical coding. In general, an ATPG generates a test-pattern that includes don?t-care values. In our method, such don?t-care values are specified based on an estimation of the final probability of 0/1 occurrence in the resultant test set. Experimental results show that our method can generate test patterns that are able to be highly compressed by statistical coding, in small computational time.
Citation:
Hideyuki Ichihara, Atsuhiro Ogawa, Tomoo Inoue, Akio Tamura, "Dynamic Test Compression Using Statistical Coding," ats, pp.143, 10th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'01), 2001