• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

스캔 기반 테스트 방법은 큰 순차 회로를 테스트하기 위한 매우 효율적이며 널리 사용되는 방법이다. 그러나 스캔 기반 테스트 방법은 테스트 패턴을 긴 스캔 체인을 통해서 순차적으로 인가해야 하기 때문에 긴 테스트 인가 시간을 필요로 한다. 또한, 스캔 쉬프트 동작이 정상 동작과 비교할 때 전력 소모를 급격히 증가시킨다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서, 본 논문에서는 테스트 패턴 인가 시간과 테스트시의 전력 소모를 줄이기 위한 새로운 스캔 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 스캔 구조는 스캔 체인을 여러 개의 세그먼트로 분할하고 specified bit를 포함하지 않는 세그먼트들을 바이패스 한다. 바이패스 되는 스캔 세그먼트들은 테스트 패턴 인가 동작에서 제외되기 때문에 테스트 패턴 인가 시간과 테스트시의 소모 전력이 상당히 줄어들게 된다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.412-420
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• 2008

A new scan partition architecture to reduce both the average and peak power dissipation during scan testing is proposed for low-power embedded systems. In scan-based testing, due to the extremely high switching activity during the scan shift operation, the power consumption increases considerably. In addition, the reduced correlation between consecutive test patterns may increase the power consumed during the capture cycle. In the proposed architecture, only a subset of scan cells is loaded with test stimulus and captured with test responses by freezing the remaining scan cells according to the spectrum of unspecified bits in the test cubes. To optimize the proposed process, a novel graph-based heuristic to partition the scan chain into several segments and a technique to increase the number of don't cares in the given test set have been developed. Experimental results on large ISCAS89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed technique, compared to the traditional full scan scheme, can reduce both the average switching activities and the average peak switching activities by 92.37% and 41.21%, respectively.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.980-986
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• 2007

Boundary scan test structure(JTAG IEEE 1149.1 standard) that supports an internal scan chain is generally being used to test CUT(circuit under test). Since the internal scan chain can only have a single scan-in port and a single scan-out port; however, existing boundary test methods can not be used when multiple scan chains are present in CUT. Those chains must be stitched to form a single scan chain as shown in this paper. We propose an efficient boundary scan test structure that adds a circuit called Clock Group Register(CGR) for multiple clocks testing within the design of multiple scan chains. The proposed CGR has the function of grouping clocks. By adding CGR to a previously existing boundary scan design, the design is modified. This revised scan design overcomes the limitation of supporting a single scan-in port and out port, and it bolsters multiple scan-in ports and out ports. Through our experiments, the effectiveness of CGR is proved. With this, it is possible to test more complicated designs that have high density with a little effort. Furthermore, it will also benefit in designing those complicated circuits.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.125-128
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a low power Scan-based Built-ln Self Test based on circuit partitioning and pattern suppression using modified test control unit. To partition a CUT(Circuit Under Testing), the MHPA(Multilevel Hypergraph Partition Algorithm) is used. As a result of circuit partition, we can reduce the total length of test pattern, so that power consumptions are decreased in test mode. Also, proposed Scan-based BIST architecture suppresses a redundant test pattern by inserting an additional decoder in BIST control unit. A decoder detects test pattern with high fault coverage, and applies it to partitioned circuits. Experimental result on the ISCAS benchmark circuits shows the efficiency of proposed low power BIST architecture.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.582-594
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• 2016

Various test data compression techniques have been developed to reduce the test costs of system-on-a-chips. In this paper, a scan chain reordering algorithm for code-based test data compression techniques is proposed. Scan cells within an acceptable relocation distance are ranked to reduce the number of conflicts in all test patterns and rearranged by a positioning algorithm to minimize the routing overhead. The proposed method is demonstrated on ISCAS '89 benchmark circuits with their physical layout by using a 180 nm CMOS process library. Significant improvements are observed in compression ratio and test power consumption with minor routing overhead.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture(AMBA) 기반 System-on-Chip(SoC) 테스트를 위한 임베디드 코어 테스트 래퍼를 제시한다. IEEE 1500 과의 호환성을 유지하면서 ARM의 Test Interface Controller(TIC)로도 테스트가 가능한 테스트 래퍼를 설계한다. IEEE 1500 래퍼의 입출력 경계 레지스터를 테스트 패턴 입력과 테스트 결과 출력을 저장하는 임시 레지스터로 활용하고 변형된 테스트 절차를 적용함으로써 Scan In과 Scan Out 뿐만 아니라 PI 인가와 PO 관측도 병행하도록 하여 테스트 시간을 단축시킨다.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.504-514
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• 1994

Combinational automatic test pattern generators (CATPG) have already been commercialized because their algorithms are well known and practical, while sequential automatic test pattern generators(SATPG) have been regarded as impractical because they are computationally complex. A technique to use CATPG instead of SATPG for test generation of sequential circuits is proposed. Redesign of seauential circuits such as Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) is inevitable to use CATPG. Various partial scan techniques has been proposed to avoid full scan such as LSSD. It ha sbeen reported that SATPG is required to use partial scan techniques. We propose a technique to use CATPG for a new partial scan technique, and propose a new CATPG algorithm for the partially scanned circuits. The partial scan technique can be another choice of design for testability because it is computationally advantageous.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2016

System-on-chip (SoC) designs have a number of flip-flops; the more flip-flops an SoC has, the longer the associated scan test application time will be. A scan shift operation accounts for a significant portion of a scan test application time. This paper presents physical-aware approaches for speeding up scan shift operations in SoCs. To improve the speed of a scan shift operation, we propose a layout-aware flip-flop insertion and scan shift operation-aware physical implementation procedure. The proposed combined method of insertion and procedure effectively improves the speed of a scan shift operation. Static timing analyses of state-of-the-art SoC designs show that the proposed approaches help increase the speeds of scan shift operations by up to 4.1 times that reached under a conventional method. The faster scan shift operation speeds help to shorten scan test application times, thus reducing test costs.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.345-355
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• 2014

Today's System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is designed with reusable IP cores to meet short time-to-market requirements. However, the increasing cost of testing becomes a big burden in manufacturing a highly integrated SoC. In this paper, an efficient parallel scan test technique is introduced to minimize the test application time. Multiple scan enable signals are adopted to implement scan architecture to achieve optimal test application time for the test patterns scheduled for concurrent scan test. Experimental results show that testing times are considerably reduced with little area overhead.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.3226-3235
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• 2000

반도체 집적 회로가 점점 복잡해지고 고속화되면서 반도체 집적 회로의 동작에 대한 검사 뿐 아니라, 회로가 원하는 시간 내에 동작함을 보장하는 지연 고장 검사의 중요성이 점점 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 경로 지연 고장에 대한 효율적인 테스트 입력 생성을 위하여 새로운 부분 확장 주사 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 유추와 할당을 적용한 테스트 입력 자동 생성기를 기반으로 하여 새로운 부분 주사 방법을 구현하였다. 우선적으로 표준 주사환경에서 테스트 입력을 생성한 후에 테스트 입력이 제대로 생성되지 않은 주사 사슬에 대하여 테스트 입력 생성기를 수행하는 동안의 정보를 이용하여 확장 주사 플립플롭이 적용될 플립플롭을 결정하였다. 확장 주사 플립플롭을 결정하는 기준으로서는 고장 검출율과 하드웨어 오버헤드를 사용하였다. 순차 회로인 ISCAS 89 벤치 마크 회로를 이용하여 실험을 수행하였으며, 실험을 통하여 표준 주사와 확장 주사 환경, 부분 확장 주사 환경에서 고장 검출율을 비교, 확인하였다. 그리고 새로운 알고리즘이 적용된 부분 확장 주사 방법에서 높은 고장 검출율을 확인함으로써 효율성을 입증하였다.