Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and SystemsVol.E89-DNo.3pp.1165-1172 Publication Date: 2006/03/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.3.1165 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Dependable Computing Keyword: BIST, fault diagnosis, error identification, at-speed test, low speed tester,
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Summary: In this paper, we provide a practical formulation of the problem of identifying all error occurrences and all failed scan cells in at-speed scan based BIST environment. We propose a method that can be used to identify every error when the circuit test frequency is higher than the tester frequency. Our approach requires very little extra hardware for diagnosis and the test application time required to identify errors is a linear function of the frequency ratio between the CUT and the tester.