IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging Trends in VLSI Systems Design (ISVLSI'04)
Scan Cell Ordering for Low Power BIST
Lafayette, Louisiana
February 19-February 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2097-9
Power dissipation during scan-based testing has gained significant importance in the past few years. In this work we examine the use of transition frequency based on scan cell ordering techniques in pseudorandom scan based BIST in order to reduce average power dissipation. We also propose the resetting of the input register of the circuit together with ordering of its elements to further reduce average power dissipation. Experimental results indicate that the proposed techniques can reduce average power dissipation up to 57.7%.
Citation:
Maciej Bellos, Dimitris Bakalis, Dimitris Nikolos, "Scan Cell Ordering for Low Power BIST," isvlsi, pp.281, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging Trends in VLSI Systems Design (ISVLSI'04), 2004