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Scan test cost and power reduction through systematic scan reconfiguration


Author(s) : Grinchuk M Chmelar E Devta-Prasanna N Al-Yamani A Gunda A, 
Publisher : IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Date : 2007
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : This paper presents segmented addressable scan (SAS), a test architecture that addresses test data volume, test application time, test power consumption, and tester channel requirements using a hardware overhead of a few gates per scan chain. Using SAS, this paper also presents systematic scan reconfiguration, a test data compression algorithm that is applied to achieve 10 x to 40 x compression ratios without requiring any information from the automatic-test-pattern-generation tool about the unspecified bits. The architecture and the algorithm were applied to both single stuck as well as transition fault test sets.,