Partial Scan Selection Based on Dynamic Reachability and Observability Information

  • Authors:
  • Michael S. Hsiao;Gurjeet S. Saund;Elizabeth M. Rudnick;Janak H. Patel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '98 Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI for Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A partial scan selection strategy is proposed in which flip-flops are selected via newly proposed dynamic reachability and observability measures such that the remaining hard-to-detect faults are easily detected. This is done by taking advantage of the information available when a target fault is aborted by the test generator. A partial scan selection tool, IDROPS, has been developed which selects the best and smallest set of flip-flops to scan that will result in a high fault coverage. Results indicate that high fault coverage in hard-to-test circuits can be achieved using fewer scan flip-flops than in previous methods.