BIST-Based Diagnostics of FPGA Logic Blocks

  • Authors:
  • Charles Stroud;Eric Lee;Miron Abramovici

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Abstract: Accurate diagnosis is an essential requirement inmany testing environments, since it is the basis for any repairor replacement strategy used for chip or system fault-tolerance.In this paper we present the first approach able todiagnose faulty programmable logic blocks (PLBs) in FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) with maximal diagnosticresolution. Our approach is based on a new Built-In Self-Test(BIST) architecture for FPGAs and can accurately locateany single and most multiple faulty PLBs. An adaptive diagnosticstrategy provides identification of faulty PLBs with a7% increase in testing time over the complete detection test,and can also be used for manufacturing yield enhancement.We present results showing identification of faulty PLBs indefective ORCA chips.1