Embedded Deterministic Test for Low-Cost Manufacturing Test
ITC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Test Conference
A SmartBIST Variant with Guaranteed Encoding
ATS '01 Proceedings of the 10th Asian Test Symposium
VLSID '05 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design
X-Masking During Logic BIST and Its Impact on Defect Coverage
ITC '04 Proceedings of the International Test Conference on International Test Conference
Channel Masking Synthesis for Efficient On-Chip Test Compression
ITC '04 Proceedings of the International Test Conference on International Test Conference
Unknown blocking scheme for low control data volume and high observability
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
A hybrid scheme for compacting test responses with unknown values
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
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This paper presents an efficient method to block unknown values from entering temporal compactors. The control signals for the blocking logic are generated by an LFSR. The proposed technique minimizes the size of the LFSR by propagating only one fault effect for each fault and balancing the number of specified bits in each control pattern. The linear solver to find seeds of the LFSR intelligently chooses a solution such that the impact on test quality is minimal. Experimental results show that sizes of control data for the proposed method are smaller than prior work and run time of the proposed method is several orders of magnitude smaller than that of prior work. Hardware overhead is very low.