Dynamic Functional Testing for VLSI Circuits

  • Authors:
  • Peter M. Maurer

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

The author discusses the two main problems of dynamic testing (i.e. testing while the simulator is running), namely the design of a high-level vector-generation language and the design of the interface between the vector generator and the simulator. He offers guidelines for designing a high-level vector-generation language as well as several examples written in FHDL, a driver language developed at the University of South Florida. The author also describes a solution to interface design that is based on a special interface data structure that supports several styles of vector generators and interactive circuit debugging.