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[ACM Press the 2005 conference - Shanghai, China (2005.01.18-2005.01.21)] Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Asia South Pacific design automation - ASP-DAC '05 - Constraint extraction for pseudo-functional scan-based delay testing

✍ Scribed by Lin, Yung-Chieh; Lu, Feng; Yang, Kai; Cheng, Kwang-Ting


Book ID
125541394
Publisher
ACM Press
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
79 KB
Category
Article
ISBN-13
9780780387379

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✦ Synopsis


Recent research results have shown that the traditional structural testing for delay and crosstalk faults may result in over-testing due to the non-trivial number of such faults that are untestable in the functional mode while testable in the test mode. This paper presents a pseudo-functional test methodology that attempts to minimize the over-testing problem of the scan-based circuits for the delay faults. The first pattern of a two-pattern test is still delivered by scan in the test mode but the pattern is generated in such a way that it does not violate the functional constraints extracted from the functional logic. In this paper, we use a SAT solver to extract a set of functional constraints which consists of illegal states and internal signal correlation. Along with the functional justification (also called broad-side) test application scheme, the functional constraints are imposed to a commercial delay-fault ATPG tool to generate pseudofunctional delay tests. The experimental results indicate that the percentage of untestable delay faults is non-trivial for many circuits which support the hypothesis of the over-testing problem in delay testing. The results also indicate the effectiveness of the proposed constraint extraction method.


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