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10th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'01)
An Approach to RTL Fault Extraction and Test Generation
Kyoto, Japan
November 19-November 21
ISBN: 0-7695-1378-6
Zhigang Yin, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yinghua Min, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaowei Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The paper presents an approach to fault extraction and test generation at RTL (Register Transfer Level). The proposed ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation) is targeting to cover all the extracted faults rather than a specific fault, and based on simulation with unspecified inputs. It uses a request-echo strategy called X-Pulling to greatly reduce the unnecessary backtrack and implication, which makes the algorithm very efficient. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach is better than ARTIST [5] in three aspects: on average, the CPU time is shorter by three orders of magnitudes, the test length is shorter by 52% and the fault coverage is higher by 0.89%.
Index Terms:
ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation), RTL (Register Transfer Level), Fault
Citation:
Zhigang Yin, Yinghua Min, Xiaowei Li, "An Approach to RTL Fault Extraction and Test Generation," ats, pp.219, 10th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'01), 2001
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