Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95) A STAFAN-like functional testability measure for register-level circuits Bangalore, India November 23-November 24 ISBN: 0-8186-7129-7
STAFAN (statistical fault analysis) is a well known testability analysis program which predicts the fault coverage of a digital circuit under the stuck-at fault model, without actually performing fault simulation. STAFAN offers speed advantage over other testability analysis programs such as SCOAP; further, it explicitly predicts the fault coverage for a given test set, unlike other testability measures which are harder to interpret. STAFAN works on gate-level digital circuits composed of basic logic gates. In this work, we show how a STAFAN-like testability analysis program can be constructed for circuits built out of register-level modules. With the proliferation of high-level synthesis and testability-driven synthesis, it is becoming more and more important to have fast testability analysis tools which operate on register-level components such as adders, multipliers, multiplexers, busses, and so on. Our testability analysis algorithm, which we call F-STAFAN, fills this void. We have implemented F-STAFAN on a Sun/SPARC workstation and describe its performance on several register-level circuits.
Index Terms:
shift registers; design for testability; circuit analysis computing; fault diagnosis; logic testing; statistical analysis; reliability theory; performance evaluation; functional testability measure; register-level circuits; fault coverage; digital circuit; stuck-at fault model; fault simulation; testability analysis programs; SCOAP; gate-level digital circuits; logic gates; high-level synthesis; testability-driven synthesis; adders; multipliers; multiplexers; busses; F-STAFAN; Sun/SPARC workstation
Citation:
C.P. Ravikumar, G.S. Saund, N. Agrawal, "A STAFAN-like functional testability measure for register-level circuits," ats, pp.192, Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95), 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||