A Non-Scan Approach to DFT for Controllers Achieving 100% Fault Efficiency

  • Authors:
  • Satoshi Ohtake;Toshimitsu Masuzawa;Hideo Fujiwara

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. ohtake@is.aist-nara.ac.jp;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. masuzawa@is.aist-nara.ac.jp;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. fujiwara@is.aist-nara.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications - Special Issue on the 7th ASIAN TEST SYMPOSIUM, ATS-98
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper presents a non-scan design-for-testability method for controllers that are synthesized from FSMs (Finite State Machines). The proposed method can achieve complete fault efficiency: test patterns for a combinational circuit of a controller are applied to the controller using state transitions of the FSM. In the proposed method, at-speed test application can be performed and the test application time is shorter than previous methods. Moreover, experimental results show the area overhead is low.