Test Response Compaction by an Accumulator Behaving as a Multiple Input Non-Linear Feedback Shift Register

  • Authors:
  • D. Bakalis;D. Nikolos;X. Kavousianos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

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

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Abstract

In this paper we show that an accumulator can bemodified to behave as a Non-Linear Feedback ShiftRegister suitable for test response compaction. Thehardware required for this modification is less than thatrequired to modify a register to a Multiple Input LinearFeedback Shift Register, MISR. We show with experimentson ISCAS'85, ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits and varioustypes of multipliers that the post-compaction faultcoverage obtained by the proposed scheme is higher thanthat of the already known accumulator based compactionschemes and in most cases identical to that achieved usinga MISR.