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11th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'02)
A Reseeding Technique for LFSR-Based BIST Applications
Guam, USA
November 18-November 20
ISBN: 0-7695-1825-7
Nan-Cheng Li, National Chung-Hsing University
Sying-Jyan Wang, National Chung-Hsing University
In this paper we describe a new design methodology for LFSR-based test pattern generators (TPG). Multiple seed are produced by the TPG itself to deal with hard-to-detect faults, and this function is achieved without using a ROM to store the seeds. A reseedling logic is incorporated in the TPG, which loads new seeds into the LFSR whenever specific states are reached. In this way, useless test vectors are skipped and thus the test application time can be greatly reduced. We experiment the design methodology by applying it to some MCNC benchmark circuits, and the results show that TPGs designed with this technique require much less hardware overhead than the previous known reseedling techniques.
Keywords: Reseedling, LFST, Pseudo-Random Testing, Test Pattern Generator, BIST
Citation:
Nan-Cheng Li, Sying-Jyan Wang, "A Reseeding Technique for LFSR-Based BIST Applications," ats, pp.200, 11th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'02), 2002
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