Generating efficient tests for continuous scan

  • Authors:
  • Sying-Jyan Wang;Sheng-Nan Chiou

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC;Institute of Computer Science, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Conventional scan-based designs spend a lot of testing time in shifting test patterns and output responses, which greatly increases the testing cost. In this paper, we propose a modified approach for scan-based design in which a test is conducted in every clock cycle. This approach may significantly reduce the test application time when appropriate test vectors are applied. We develop algorithms to generate efficient test input for the test environment, and experimental results show that we can achieve high fault coverage with only about 10%-30% of the clock cycles required in conventional scan-based design.