基于镜像对称参考切片的多扫描链测试数据压缩方法

为了减少测试数据和测试时间,该文提出一种基于镜像对称参考切片的多扫描链测试数据压缩方法。采用两个相互镜像对称的参考切片与扫描切片做相容性比较,提高了相容概率。若扫描切片与参考切片相容,只需要很少的几位编码就可以表示这个扫描切片,并且可以并行载入多扫描链;若不相容,参考切片被该扫描切片替换。提出一种最长相容策略,用来处理扫描切片与参考切片同时满足多种相容关系时的选取问题。根据Huffman编码原理确定不同相容情况的编码码字,可以进一步提高测试数据的压缩率。实验结果表明所提方法的平均测试数据压缩率达到了69.13%。     

采用字典词条衍生模式的测试数据压缩

为了降低数字集成电路测试成本,压缩预先计算的测试集是一种有效的解决途径。该文根据索引位数远少于字典词条,以及测试数据中存在大量无关位,提出一种采用词条衍生和二级编码的字典压缩方案。该方案引入循环移位操作,确保无关位按序任意移动而不丢失,从而扩大词条衍生性能,减少非词条向量个数。另外,采用规则的两级编码可以减少码字数量和解压电路的复杂度。实验结果表明该文所提方案能够进一步提高测试数据压缩率,减少测试时间。     

一种低功耗双重测试数据压缩方案

随着集成电路制造工艺的发展,VLSI（Very Large Scale Integrated）电路测试面临着测试数据量大和测试功耗过高的问题.对此,本文提出一种基于多级压缩的低功耗测试数据压缩方案.该方案先利用输入精简技术对原测试集进行预处理,以减少测试集中的确定位数量,之后再进行第一级压缩,即对测试向量按多扫描划分为子向量并进行相容压缩,压缩后的测试向量可用更短的码字表示;接着再对测试数据进行低功耗填充,先进行捕获功耗填充,使其达到安全阈值以内,然后再对剩余的无关位进行移位功耗填充;最后对填充后的测试数据进行第二级压缩,即改进游程编码压缩.对ISCAS89基准电路的实验结果表明,本文方案能取得比golomb码、FDR码、EFDR码、9C码、BM码等更高的压缩率,同时还能协同优化测试时的捕获功耗和移位功耗.     

多链扫描可测性设计中扫描链的选取

本文提出了多链扫描可测性设计中扫描链的构造方法．根据电路的规模、输人／输出管脚数及测试时间的要求确定扫描链个数，引人临界时间的概念，采用动态编程的方法确定每条链中的扫描触发器．采用该方法，计算速度比传统方法显著提高，同时节省了存储空间．     

全扫描设计中多扫描链的构造

本文在交迭测试体系 的基础上提出了一种多扫描链的区间构造法,对于确定的测试向量集能够显著地减少测试应用时间.该构造方法根据规定的扫描链数,通过求解线性规划问题的方法确定扫描寄存器在扫描链上的优化的分布区间,从而构造多扫描链,最后根据对多扫描链进行连线复杂度的定性分析,求得连线复杂度最低的多扫描链的最优构造.     

多链扫描可测性设计中扫锚链的选取

本文提出了多链扫描可测性设计中扫描链的构造方法。根据电路的规模，输入／输出管脚数及测试时间的要求确定扫描链个数，引入临界时间的概念，采用动态编程的方法确定每条链中的扫描触发器；采用该方法，计算速度比传统方法显著提高，同时节省了存储空间。     

部分扫描可测性设计中扫描链的构造

提出了时序电路的部分扫描法可测性设计中扫描链的构造方法，包括扫描链的选取、扫描链的排序、多链扫描设计三部分内容。采用组合等效电路的方法求测试向量，并用实例进行了验证，模拟结果表明，选取２０％￣４０％的触发器至扫描链，用较少的测试向量，可达到很理想的故障覆盖率，测试时间依赖于触发器在扫描链中的顺序以及扫描链的个数。     

JTAG测试中扫描链的配置问题研究

分析了常见扫描链路配置中面临的问题,提出了一种扫描链配置方案。结合工程测试中出现的实际问题,给出了有关扫描链路配置的一些建议和注意事项。     

一种新颖的全方位多扫描设计的测试压缩方法

提出了一种基于展开宽度可调的解压缩技术和X-压缩的多扫描电路的测试压缩方法。采用可变宽度的扫描链解压缩方法，对测试输入进行解压缩，且对于测试响应，结合了X-压缩的优点，测试响应整合器最小化故障被屏蔽的概率，扫描链的结构采取广播扫描模式。在此基础上对其改进，使其可同时处理取值相反的触发器。两种工作模式（串行模式和并行模式）可进一步处理剩余的紧凑的触发器值。提出的测试压缩算法的优点是：可节省测试设备的存储需求，减少测试输入输出引脚数和测试通道数，降低测试应用时间，从而全面提高测试激励数据和测试响应数据的压缩率。实验结果证明了该算法与以往算法相比较的优势。     

一种基于编码的低硬件开销的测试数据压缩方法

提出了一种新的测试数据压缩/解压缩的算法,称为混合游程编码,它充分考虑了测试数据的压缩率、相应硬件解码电路的开销以及总的测试时间.该算法是基于变长-变长的编码方式,即把不同游程长度的字串映射成不同长度的代码字,可以得到一个很好的压缩率.同时为了进一步提高压缩率,还提出了一种不确定位填充方法和测试向量的排序算法,在编码压缩前对测试数据进行相应的预处理.另外,混合游程编码的研究过程中充分考虑到了硬件解码电路的设计,可以使硬件开销尽可能小,并减少总的测试时间.最后,ISCAS 89 benchmark电路的实验结果证明了所提算法的有效性.     

Efficient Test Data Compression and Low Power Scan Testing in SoCs

Testing time and power consumption during the testing of SoCs are becoming increasingly important with an increasing volume of test data in intellectual property cores in SoCs. This paper presents a new algorithm to reduce the scan‐in power and test data volume using a modified scan latch reordering algorithm. We apply a scan latch reordering technique to minimize the column hamming distance in scan vectors. During scan latch reordering, the don't‐care inputs in the scan vectors are assigned for low power and high compression. Experimental results for ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that reduced test data and low power scan testing can be achieved in all cases.     

Deterministic BIST with Multiple Scan Chains

A deterministic BIST scheme for circuits with multiple scan paths is presented. A procedure is described for synthesizing a pattern generator which stimulates all scan chains simultaneously and guarantees complete fault coverage.The new scheme may require less chip area than a classical LFSR-based approach while better or even complete fault coverage is obtained at the same time.     

An Interleaving Technique for Reducing Peak Power in Multiple-Chain Scan Circuits During Test Application

This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the peak power of multiple scan chain based circuits during testing. The peak periodicity and the peak width of the power waveforms for scan-based circuits are analyzed. An interleaving scan architecture based on adding delay buffers among the scan chains is developed which can significantly reduce the peak power. This method can be efficiently integrated with a recently proposed broadcast multiple scan architecture due to the sharing of scan patterns. The effects of the interleaving scan technique applied to the conventional multiple scan and the broadcast multiple scan with 10 scan chains are investigated. Up to 51% peak power reduction can be achieved when the data output of a scan cell is affected by the scan path during scan. When the data output is disabled during scan, up to 76% of peak-power reduction is observed.     

Deterministic Test Vector Compression/Decompression for Systems-on-a-Chip Using an Embedded Processor

A novel approach for using an embedded processor to aid in deterministic testing of the other components of a system-on-a-chip (SOC) is presented. The tester loads a program along with compressed test data into the processor's on-chip memory. The processor executes the program which decompresses the test data and applies it to scan chains in the other components of the SOC to test them. The program itself is very simple and compact, and the decompression is done very rapidly, hence this approach reduces both the amount of data that must be stored on the tester and reduces the test time. Moreover, it enables at-speed scan shifting even with a slow tester (i.e., a tester whose maximum clock rate is slower than the SOC's normal operating clock rate). A procedure is described for converting a set of test cubes (i.e., test vectors where the unspecified inputs are left as X's) into a compressed form. A program that can be run on an embedded processor is then given for decompressing the test cubes and applying them to scan chains on the chip. Experimental results indicate a significant amount of compression can be achieved resulting in less data that must be stored on the tester (i.e., smaller tester memory requirement) and less time to transfer the test data from the tester to the chip.     

应用混合游程编码的SOC测试数据压缩方法

本文提出了一种有效的基于游程编码的测试数据压缩/解压缩的算法:混合游程编码,它具有压缩率高和相应解码电路硬件开销小的突出特点.另外,由于编码算法的压缩率和测试数据中不确定位的填充策略有很大的关系,所以为了进一步提高测试压缩编码效率,本文还提出一种不确定位的迭代排序填充算法.理论分析和对部分ISCAS 89 benchmark电路的实验结果证明了混合游程编码和迭代排序填充算法的有效性.