GRAAL: a Tool for Highly Dependable SRAMs Generation

  • Authors:
  • Silvia CHIUSANO;Giorgio DI NATALE;Paolo PRINETTO;Franco BIGONGIARI

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '01 Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents a tool to achieve proper reliabilitylevels in systems based on memories, allowing theautomatic insertion of BIST architectures for both OFF-lineand ON-line memory testing. While OFF-line memorytesting was partially targeted by the available commercialtools, ON-line memory testing was so far notcovered.The set of algorithms and architectures supported bythe tool is not limited, and it can be easily extended toinclude innovative architectures and achieve the reliabilityrequirements in any application. Using the tool, thedesigner can generate dependable memories trading-offin the design process dependability properties and costs.