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23rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'05)
Pseudo-Functional Scan-based BIST for Delay Fault
Palm Springs, California
May 01-May 05
ISBN: 0-7695-2314-5
Yung-Chieh Lin, University of California at Santa Barbara
Feng Lu, University of California at Santa Barbara
Kwang-Ting Cheng, University of California at Santa Barbara
This paper presents a pseudo-functional BIST scheme that attempts to minimize the over-testing problem of logic BIST for delay and crosstalk-induced failures. The over-testing problem is evident from the non-trivial number of Structurally Testable while Functionally Untestable (ST-FU) faults. Such faults can be detected by some scan/BIST patterns but not by any functional pattern. The goal of this BIST scheme is to allow only functional-like patterns generated from the BIST Random Test Pattern Generator (RTPG) as tests. This is done by inserting a Monitor at the output of the RTPG, which indicates whether the current pattern violates some pre-extracted functional constraints. In case of violation, the pattern will be skipped. In our implementation, a SAT solver is used to analyze and extract a set of functional constraints from the functional logic. These functional constraints are then implemented in hardware as the Monitor. Even though the extracted functional constraints can not be exhausted, the proposed BIST scheme can detect and filter out, in real-time, a substantial subset of the nonfunctional patterns, and thus minimizing the over-testing problem. We present some experimental results to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed BIST scheme.
Citation:
Yung-Chieh Lin, Feng Lu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, "Pseudo-Functional Scan-based BIST for Delay Fault," vts, pp.229-234, 23rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'05), 2005
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