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14th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'05)
Design for Testability Based on Single-Port-Change Delay Testing for Data Paths
Calcutta, India
December 18-December 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2481-8
Yuki Yoshikaw, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Satoshi Ohtake, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Michiko Inoue, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
and Hideo Fujiwara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
This paper introduces a new concept of hierarchical testability called Single-Port-Change (SPC) two-pattern testability. We propose a non-scan design-for-testability (DFT) method which makes each path that needs to be tested in a data path SPC two-pattern testable. An SPC two-pattern test guarantees robust (resp. non-robust) test if the path is robust (resp. non-robust) testable. Since it is easy to find justification paths for SPC two-pattern tests at register-transfer level, the proposed DFT method can reduce hardware overhead compared to that of our previous DFT method for arbitrary two-pattern tests. Furthermore, we propose a method to reduce test generation effort by removing a subset of sequentially untestable paths from targets of test generation. Experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce hardware overhead without losing the quality of test.
Citation:
Yuki Yoshikaw, Satoshi Ohtake, Michiko Inoue, and Hideo Fujiwara, "Design for Testability Based on Single-Port-Change Delay Testing for Data Paths," ats, pp.254-259, 14th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'05), 2005
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