ATPG for heat dissipation minimization during scan testing

  • Authors:
  • Seongmoon Wang;Sandeep K. Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • E.E. - Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;E.E. - Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

An ATPG technique is proposed that reduces heat dissipationduring testing of sequential circuits that have full-scan. The objectiveis to permit safe and inexpensive testing of low power circuitsand bare die that would otherwise require expensive heat removalequipment for testing at high speeds. The proposed ATPG exploitsall don't cares that occur during scan shifting, test application, andresponse capture to minimize switching activity in the circuit undertest. Furthermore, an ATPG that maximizes the number of state inputsthat are assigned don't care values, has been developed. Theproposedtechniquehas beenimplemented and usedto generatetestsfor full scan versions of ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits. These testsdecrease the average number of transitions during test by 19% to89%, when comparedwith those generatedby a simple PODEM implementation.