Zero Cost Test Point Insertion Technique to Reduce Test Set Size and Test Generation Time for Structured ASICs

R. Sethuram, Seongmoon Wang, S. Chakradhar, M. Bushnell
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Since structured application specific integrated chip (ASIC) products require very short turn around time, long automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) run time is undesirable. Large structured ASICs often require a large number of test patterns to achieve the desired fault coverage. This paper presents the first test point insertion technique for structured ASICs that can reduce test set sizes and ATPG run time. Only unused flip-flops in the structured ASIC design are used to implement test points, so the proposed technique does not incur any hardware overhead. Since test points are inserted during a post-layout step, considering both timing and layout information, hence test points can be inserted without changing the existing layout or routing. Novel gain functions are defined that specifically quantify the reduction in test volume and test time to select the best signal lines for inserting test points. The gain function described in this paper is also applicable to regular cell based ASICs. The proposed test point insertion technique can be used in conjunction with any compression technique (Jas et al., 2003) to further reduce the test volume. Experimental results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed technique. Using less than 1% of extra flip-flops and very little run time for test point insertion, test generation time was reduced by up 42.9% and test data volume by up to 25.9% while also achieving a near 100% fault efficiency for very large industrial (400K-5M signal lines) designs
零成本测试点插入技术减少结构化asic的测试集大小和测试生成时间
由于结构化应用专用集成芯片(ASIC)产品需要非常短的周转时间,因此不希望长时间的自动测试模式生成(ATPG)运行时间。大型结构化asic通常需要大量的测试模式来实现所需的故障覆盖。本文提出了结构化asic的第一个测试点插入技术,它可以减少测试集的大小和ATPG的运行时间。在结构化ASIC设计中只使用未使用的触发器来实现测试点,因此所提出的技术不会产生任何硬件开销。由于测试点是在布局后的步骤中插入的,考虑到时间和布局信息,因此可以在不改变现有布局或路由的情况下插入测试点。定义了新的增益函数,具体量化了测试体积和测试时间的减少,以选择最佳信号线插入测试点。本文所描述的增益函数也适用于基于普通单元的asic。所提出的测试点插入技术可以与任何压缩技术(Jas et al., 2003)结合使用,以进一步减小测试体积。实验结果清楚地证明了该技术的有效性和可扩展性。使用不到1%的额外触发器和很少的测试点插入运行时间,测试生成时间减少了42.9%,测试数据量减少了25.9%,同时对于超大型工业(400K-5M信号线)设计也实现了接近100%的故障效率
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