Logic BIST Using Constrained Scan Cells

  • Authors:
  • Liyang Lai;Thomas Rinderknecht;Wu-Tung Cheng;Janak H. Patel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VTS '04 Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel scan cell based control pointinsertion technique which eliminates timing degradation ofconventional control points in built-in self test (BIST) applications.In this approach, control points are encoded intoscan chains. Observation points are applied to enhancefault coverage. At each phase, a set of control points are activatedto detect a set of target faults. Compared to conventionaltest point insertion, scan cell based control points improvecontrollability of the core logic without compromisingtiming performance of circuit under test (CUT). Experimentalresults show that close to stuck-at fault coverage by automatictest pattern generation (ATPG) can be achieved byour BIST method.