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24th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
SCT: An Approach For Testing and Configuring Nanoscale Devices
Berkeley, California
April 30-May 04
ISBN: 0-7695-2514-8
Reza M.P. Rad, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Mohammad Tehranipoor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Molecular electronics-based devices are assumed to include at least 10^10 gate-equivalents/cm2 and defect densities as high as 10%; novel test strategies are necessary to efficiently test and diagnose these nanoscale devices. Configuration time, test time and defect map size are among the major challenges for these new devices. In this paper, we propose a new approach that simultaneously configures and tests nano devices. A new built-in self-test (BIST) scheme for testing and defect tolerance of nanoscale devices is proposed. The proposed procedure is based on testing reconfigurable nanoblocks at the time of implementing a function of a desired application on that block. This simultaneous configuration and test (SCT) procedure considerably reduces the test and configuration time. It also eliminates the need for storing the location of the defects in the defect map on/off-chip. The presented probabilistic analyses results show the effectiveness of this process in terms of test and configuration time for architectures with rich interconnect resources.
Citation:
Reza M.P. Rad, Mohammad Tehranipoor, "SCT: An Approach For Testing and Configuring Nanoscale Devices," vts, pp.370-377, 24th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2006
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