Design of System-on-a-Chip Test Access Architectures using Integer Linear Programming

  • Authors:
  • Krishnendu Chakrabarty

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • VTS '00 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Test access is a major problem for system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. Since embedded cores in an SOC are not directly accessible via chip I/Os, special access mechanisms are required to test them after system integration. Efficient test access architecture should reduce test cost and time-to-market by minimizing test application time.We address several issues related to the design of test access architectures. Even though these design problems are NP-complete, they can be solved exactly using integer linear programming (ILP). As a case study, the ILP models for two hypothetical but representative systems are solved using a public-domain ILP software package.