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20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07)
Functional Broadside Tests with Different Levels of Reachability
Bangalore, India
January 06-January 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2762-0
Irith Pomeranz, Purdue University
Sudhakar M. Reddy, University of Iowa
Functional broadside tests for transition faults are broadside tests that detect transition faults using only states that the circuit can visit during functional operation, or reachable states. Reachability was used before as a binary property, i.e., a state is either reachable or not. We extend this concept to associate a level of reachability with every state. A non-zero level is associated with a reachable state. A reachable state that is more likely to occur during functional operation is associated with a higher reachability level than a state that is less likely to occur. Tests based on states with high levels of reachability and tests based on states with low levels of reachability can serve different purposes, and both may be needed for a high-quality test set. We describe a process of constructing a test set for transition faults such that each detectable fault would be detected by two functional broadside tests with the most extreme possible levels of reachability.
Citation:
Irith Pomeranz, Sudhakar M. Reddy, "Functional Broadside Tests with Different Levels of Reachability," vlsid, pp.799-804, 20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07), 2007
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