International Test Conference 2002 (ITC'02)
Scan Test Data Volume Reduction in Multi-Clocked Designs with Safe Capture Technique
Baltimore, MD, USA
October 07-October 10
ISBN: 0-7803-7543-2
As a result of increasing design size and complexity, multiple clock domains design style has become a new trend in the industry. Several techniques to test circuits with multiple clocks are known, however, they often result in increased test time and tester memory for large and complex circuits. This paper presents a strategy to reduce the test pattern count during ATPG by forcing a safe capture behavior when multiple clocks are applied during capture. The usage of multiple clocks allows additional observability, which can significantly reduce the pattern count for circuits with many clocks. Experimental results indicate that proposed strategy results in larger and moreover, more consistent reduction in test sizes.