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Sixth Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'99)
An Automatic Testing and Diagnosis for FPGAs
Hong Kong, China
December 16-December 17
ISBN: 0-7695-0371-3
Abderrahim Doumar, Chiba University
Hideo Ito, Chiba University
This paper presents a new design for testing and diagnosing the SRAM-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). By slightly modifying the original FPGA's SRAM memory, the new architecture permits to the configuration data to be looped on a chip. Then the full testing and diagnosing of the FPGA are achieved by loading typically only one testing configuration data (carefully chosen) instead of loading the totality of the required configurations data ( which is a very slow process) in the normal cases. Other configurations data are obtained by shifting the first one inside the chip. Consequently the test becomes faster. This method does not need a large outside memory (off-chip memory) for the test. The evaluation proves that this method becomes very interesting when the complexity of the configurable blocks (CLBs) or the chip size increase.
Citation:
Abderrahim Doumar, Hideo Ito, "An Automatic Testing and Diagnosis for FPGAs," prdc, pp.45, Sixth Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'99), 1999
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