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Eleventh International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI for Signal Processing
Controller Resynthesis for Testability Enhancement of RTL Controller/Data path Circuits
India
January 04-January 07
ISBN: 0-8186-8224-8
Srivaths Ravi, Princeton University,
Indradeep Ghosh, Princeton University,
Sujit Dey, NEC
In this paper, we propose a controller resynthesis technique to enhance the testability of register-transfer level (RTL) controller/data path circuits. Our technique exploits the fact that the control signals in an RTL implementation are don't cares under certain states/conditions. We make an effective use of the don't care information in the controller specification to improve the overall testability (better fault coverage and shorter test generation time). If the don't care information in the controller specification leaves little scope for respecification, we add control vectors to the controller to enhance the testability. Experimental results with example benchmarks show an average increase in testability of 9% with a 3-4 fold decrease in test generation time for the modified implementation. The area, delay and power overheads incurred for testability are very low. The average area overhead is 0.4%, and the average power overhead is 4.6%. There was no delay overhead du! e to this technique.
Index Terms:
High Level Testing, Synthesis for Testability, Respecification, Don't Cares
Citation:
Srivaths Ravi, Indradeep Ghosh, Rabindra K. Roy, Sujit Dey, "Controller Resynthesis for Testability Enhancement of RTL Controller/Data path Circuits," vlsid, pp.193, Eleventh International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI for Signal Processing, 1998
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