Deterministic BIST with Partial Scan

  • Authors:
  • Gundolf Kiefer;Hans-Joachim Wunderlich

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Architecture Lab, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Gundolf.Kiefer@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de;Computer Architecture Lab, University of Stuttgart, Germany. wu@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications - special issue on the European test workshop 1999
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

An efficient deterministic BIST scheme based onpartial scan chains together with a scan selection algorithm tailoredfor BIST is presented. The algorithm determines a minimum number offlipflops to be scannable so that the remaining circuit has apipeline-like structure. Experiments show that scanning lessflipflops may even decrease the hardware overhead for the on-chippattern generator besides the classical advantages of partial scansuch as less impact on the system performance and less hardwareoverhead.