Identification of failing tests with cycling registers

  • Authors:
  • J. Savir;W. H. McAnney

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY;IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY.

  • Venue:
  • ITC'88 Proceedings of the 1988 international conference on Test: new frontiers in testing
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

An earlier paper [1] describes a method of identifying failing test patterns (when signature analysis is used) through operations on the faulty and the fault-free signatures. The major drawback of this method is the complexity of identi fying three or more failing tests. This paper shows a method of operating on signatures from a cycling register such that the complexity of identifying multiple failing tests is comparable to that of identifying a single failing test. The method has some interesting aliasing charact eristics. The paper shows the probability of aliasing and suggests how it can be kept relatively small.