14th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'05)
Low Power Test Compression Technique for Designs with Multiple Scan Chain
Calcutta, India
December 18-December 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2481-8
Shinji Kimura, Grad. School of Infomation, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Japan
This paper presents a new DFT technique that can significantly reduce test data volume as well as scan-in power consumption for multiscan-based designs. It can also help to reduce test time and tester channel requirements with small hardware overhead. In the proposed approach, we start with a pre-computed test cube set and fill the don?t-cares with proper values for joint reduction of test data volume and scan power consumption. In addition we explore the linear dependencies of the scan chains to construct a fanout structure only with inverters to achieve further compression. Experimental results for the larger ISCAS?89 benchmarks show the efficiency of the proposed technique.
Citation:
Youhua Shi, Nozomu Togawa, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki, Shinji Kimura, "Low Power Test Compression Technique for Designs with Multiple Scan Chain," ats, pp.386-389, 14th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'05), 2005