The Testability Features of the 3rd Generation Coldfire® Family of Microprocessors

  • Authors:
  • Alfred L. Crouch;Michael Mateja;Teresa L. McLaurin;John C. Potter;Dat Tran

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

A description of the DFT and Test challenges faced, andthe solutions applied, to the newest member of the Cold-Fire® microprocessor family, the MCF5307, is described.The MCF5307 is the 脼rst member of the family to haveon-chip, PLL-sourced, dual clock domains where the businterface and the internal core microprocessor operate atdifferent, but selectable, frequency ratios; and the internal microprocessor core of the MCF5307 was designedas a separate stand-alone core that contained multipleembedded memory arrays. The DFT challenges and solutions described involve the development of the at-speedAC scan test architecture and scan vectors in a multipleclock domain environment; the application of memoryBIST to multiple embedded memories in a cost effectivemanner; and the handling of an on-chip PLL clocksource.