Papers Published

1. Chakrabarty, K; Murray, BT, Design of built-in test generator circuits using width compression, Ieee Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 17 no. 10 (December, 1998), pp. 1044-1051, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [doi] .
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   Abstract:
   We present a method for designing test generator circuits (TGC's) that incorporate a precomputed test set TD in the patterns they produce. Our method uses width compression based on the property of d-compatibles as well as compatibles and inverse compatibles and does not require access to a gate-level model of the circuit under test. The TGC consists of a counter, which generates a set of encoded test patterns TE, and a decompression circuit, which consists of simple binary decoders that generate a final sequence containing TD. We show that partially specified test sets, i.e., those that contain a large number of don't-cares, lead to more efficient TGC's. These TGC's are applicable to embedded-core circuits whose detailed designs are not available. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by presenting experimental results on width compression for the ISCAS'85 benchmark circuits and the full-scan versions of the ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits. Index Terms - BIST pattern generation, built-in self-test (BIST), decompression circuit, deterministic BIST, embedded core testing, encoding methods, partially specified test sets, sequence generator. © 1998 IEEE.