THE TESTABILITY FEATURES OF THE MCF5407 CONTAINING THE 4TH GENERATION COLDFIRE® MICROPROCESSOR CORE

  • Authors:
  • Teresa L. McLaurin;Frank Frederick

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The DFT and Test challenges faced, and the solutionsapplied, to the newest member of the ColdFire®microprocessor family, the MCF5407, are describedin this paper. The MCF5407 is the first member of thefamily to utilize a PLL-sourced clock to do at-speedlaunch-to-capture cycles. This PLL-sourced testclock can be "chopped" in any manner needed forcore to asic ratios between 4:1 and 1:1. The internalmicroprocessor core of the MCF5407 was designedas a separate stand-alone core. The DFT challengesand solutions described in this paper involve thechallenges that are above and beyond the challengesof the MCF5307; including the PLL clock chop andenhanced PLL scan testing.