System chip test: how will it impact your design?

  • Authors:
  • Yervant Zorian;Erik Jan Marinissen

  • Affiliations:
  • LogicVision, Inc., 101 Metro Drive, Third Floor, San Jose, CA, United States of America;Philips Research Laboratories, Dept. Digital Design & Test, Prof. Holstlaan 4, M/S WAY-41, 5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A major challenge in realizing core-based system chips is the adoption and design-in of adequate test and diagnosis strategies. This tutorial paper discusses the specific challenges that come with testing deeply embedded reusable cores supplied by diverse providers, who often use different hardware description levels and mixed technologies. The paper describes a general test access architecture for embedded cores, and covers the current standardization efforts in this domain. In addition, we give an overview of the emerging EDA developments in SOC test, and illustrate the current industrial practices by means of two case studies.