Tree-Based Hybrid Scan Architecture for VLSI Testing.

Date of Submission

December 2007

Date of Award

Winter 12-12-2008

Institute Name (Publisher)

Indian Statistical Institute

Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Degree Name

Master of Technology

Subject Name

Computer Science

Department

Advance Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU-Kolkata)

Supervisor

Bhattacharya, Bhargab Bikram (ACMU-Kolkata; ISI)

Abstract (Summary of the Work)

Full scan based design technique is widely used to alleviate the complexity of test generation for sequential circuits. However, this approach leads to substantial increase in the test application time, because of serial loading of test vectors, especially in today’s digital circuit containing thousands of flip-flops. In a scan-based system with a large number of flip-flops, a major component of power is consumed during scan-shift and clock operation in test mode. In this thesis, a novel two-stage hybrid DFT approach is proposed that drastically reduces the scan-shift and clock activity during testing. The design is independent of the structure of the circuit-under-test (CUT) or its test set. A tree-type structure is employed to design the scan architecture incorporating very simplified hardware circuitry. It provides a significant reduction both in instaneous and average power needed for clocking and scan shifting. It reduces the number of test vectors compared to autoscan technique. The test suite consists of: (i) some externally deterministic test vectors to be scanned in where flip-flops are oriented in tree-type structure, (ii) internally generated responses of the CUT to be re-applied as tests iteratively, in non-scan mode, (iii) a set of externally deterministic test vectors to be scanned in where flip-flop are interconnected in linear scan chain. The method uses only combinational ATPG for deterministic testing and thus makes a good use of scan based and non-scan testing. Experimental results on ISCAS-89 benchmark circuits reveal a significant reduction of test application time and energy/power reduction due to shift in test mode.The architecture fits well to built-in self-test (BIST) scheme.

Comments

ProQuest Collection ID: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:28843712

Control Number

ISI-DISS-2007-211

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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DOI

http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/6374

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