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12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS'06)
Efficient Deterministic Test Generation for BIST Schemes with LFSR Reseeding
Lake of Como, Italy
July 10-July 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2620-9
Stelios Neophytou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Maria K. Michael, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Spyros Tragoudas, Southern Illinois University, USA
We propose a novel method for generating test patterns that can be encoded efficiently using reseeding of LFSRbased schemes for hybrid BIST. Our focus is to reduce the number of deterministic tests while keeping their overall number of specified bits small and, thus, reduce the storage requirements for the LFSR seeds. The proposed solution is based on test function manipulation and generates a compact test set in which individual tests have a high number of unspecified bits. The method uses Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) and a modified version of the min-cost max-matching problem on graphs. The obtained experimental results clearly demonstrate the impact of the proposed ATPG algorithm in reducing the on-chip seed storage, when combined with the considered BIST schemes.
Citation:
Stelios Neophytou, Maria K. Michael, Spyros Tragoudas, "Efficient Deterministic Test Generation for BIST Schemes with LFSR Reseeding," iolts, pp.43-50, 12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS'06), 2006
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