Channel Width Test Data Compression under a Limited Number of Test Inputs and Outputs

  • Authors:
  • Hideyuki Ichihara;Kozo Kinoshita;Koji Isodono;Shigeki Nishikawa

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '03 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A narrow channel width between a circuit under test anda tester increases the testing time. In this paper, we proposea channel width compression method when the channelwidth is limited. A given test sequence is partitioned intosub-sequences, whose widths can be compressed under thelimited width. Each sub-sequence is compressed and expandedby a proposed dynamically re-configurable circuitlocated between the circuit under test and the tester. Sincethe hardware overhead depends on the number of partitionsfor a test sequence, a procedure to partition a given test sequenceinto a minimum number of sub-sequences under thechannel width limitation is proposed. Experimental resultsshow that our method can compress the width of a test sequenceinto a half through a quarter with a relatively smallnumber of partitions.