Scan Test Cost and Power Reduction Through Systematic Scan Reconfiguration

  • Authors:
  • A. Al-Yamani;N. Devta-Prasanna;E. Chmelar;M. Grinchuk;A. Gunda

  • Affiliations:
  • King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents segmented addressable scan (SAS), a test architecture that addresses test data volume, test application time, test power consumption, and tester channel requirements using a hardware overhead of a few gates per scan chain. Using SAS, this paper also presents systematic scan reconfiguration, a test data compression algorithm that is applied to achieve 10times to 40 times compression ratios without requiring any information from the automatic-test-pattern-generation tool about the unspecified bits. The architecture and the algorithm were applied to both single stuck as well as transition fault test sets