Testing embedded-core based system chips

  • Authors:
  • Yervant Zorian;Erik Jan Marinissen;Sujit Dey

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Advances in semiconductor process and design technology enable the design of complex system chips. Traditional IC design,in which every circuit is designed from scratch and reuse is limited to standard-cell libraries, is more and more replaced bya design style based on embedding large reusable modules, the so-called cores. This core-based design poses a series of newchallenges, especially in the domains of manufacturing test and design validation and debug. This paper provides an overviewof current industrial practices as well as academic research in these areas. We also discuss industry-wide efforts by VSIA andIEEE P1500 and describe the challenges for future research.