Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05)
Reseeding-Based Test Set Embedding with Reduced Test Sequences
San Jose, California
March 21-March 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2301-3
E. Kalligeros, University of Patras, Greece; Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
D. Kaseridis, University of Patras, Greece; Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
D. Nikolos, University of Patras, Greece; Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
A novel technique for reducing the test sequences of reseeding-based schemes is presented in this paper. The proposed technique is generic and can be applied to test set embedding or mixed-mode schemes based on various TPGs. The imposed hardware overhead is very small since it is confined to just one extra bit per seed plus one very small counter in the scheme's control logic, while the test-sequence-length reductions achieved are up to 44.71%. Along with the test-sequence-reduction technique, an efficient seed-selection algorithm for the test-per-clock, LFSR-based, test set embedding case is presented. The proposed algorithm targets the minimization of the selected seed volumes and, combined with the test-sequence-reduction technique, delivers results with fewer seeds and much smaller test sequences than the already proposed approaches.
Citation:
E. Kalligeros, D. Kaseridis, X. Kavousianos, D. Nikolos, "Reseeding-Based Test Set Embedding with Reduced Test Sequences," isqed, pp.226-231, Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), 2005