CircularScan: A Scan Architecture for Test Cost Reduction

  • Authors:
  • Baris Arslan;Alex Orailoglu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Scan-based designs are widely used to decrease the complexity of the test generation process; nonetheless, they increase test time and volume. A new scan architecture is proposed to reduce test time and volume while retaining the original scan input count. Theproposed architecture allows the use of the captured response as a template for the next pattern with only the necessary bits of the captured response being updated while observing the full captured response. The theoretical and experimental analysis promises a substantialreduction in test cost for large circuits.