基于电力线通信芯片可测性设计的研究实现

集成电路的快速发展,迫切地需要快速、高效、低成本且具有可重复性的测试方案,这也成为可测性设计的发展方向。此次设计基于一款电力线通信芯片,数字部分采用传统常用的数字模块扫描链测试和存储器内建自测试;同时利用芯片正常的通信信道,引入模拟环路测试和芯片环路内建自测试,即覆盖了所有模拟模块又保证了芯片的基本通信功能,而且最大限度地减少了对芯片整体功能布局的影响。最终使芯片良率在98%以上,达到了大规模生产的要求。此设计可以为当前数模混合通信芯片的测试提供参考。     

集成芯片的可测性设计技术

主要介绍了三种可测性设计（DFT）技术,分别是：扫描设计（Scan Design）、边界扫描设计（Boundary Scan Design）和内建自测试设计（BIST）。对于这三种设计技术,分别介绍了其原理和设计过程。     

Garfield系列SoC芯片可测性设计与测试

随着生产工艺的进步和芯片复杂度的增加,SoC芯片的测试问题显得越来越重要,传统的测试方法已不能满足现在的设计要求.文章介绍了基于130 nm工艺的Garfield芯片可测性设计,包括边界扫描测试、存储器内建自测试、全速扫描测试和参数测试;分析了全速测试时钟的生成和测试压缩电路的实现.实验结果表明,该方案的故障覆盖率和压缩效率最高可达到97.39%和30%,符合工程应用要求.     

基于模块划分方法的MPEG-2解码芯片可测性设计

以MPEG-2解码芯片为研究对象,采用基于模块划分方法进行可测性设计,包括边界扫描(JTAG)和内建自测试(BIST).根据MPEG-2系统结构的特点,把模块划分为存储器类型、信号不相关类型和信号相关类型.针对模块特性,设计不同的测试向量生成器,3种类型模块之间并行测试.测试结果表明,与未加入可测试设计的系统比较,固定故障覆盖率由81%提升到95.1%,而硬件开销仅为3%.     

大规模集成电路可测性设计及其应用策略

随着集成电路的规模不断增大,集成电路的可测性设计正变得越来越重要.综述了可测性设计方案扫描通路法、内建自测试法和边界扫描法,并分析比较了这几种设计方案各自的特点及应用策略.     

异构多核DSP芯片的可测性设计

本文介绍了一款异构多核DSP芯片的可测性设计实现,包含存储器内建自测试、存储器修复、扫描链设计、测试压缩和全速扫描测试。文章首先对芯片架构和可测性设计难点进行了介绍,并制定了全芯片可测性设计的策略,随后介绍了具体的实现,最后给出了覆盖率结果。实验结果表明该设计的测试覆盖率符合工程应用要求。     

大规模集成电路的可测性技术研究

集成电路测试和设计技术是集成电路的主要核心技术，而可测性设计技术是集成电路测试和设计这两大核心技术的复合技术或边缘技术，本文主要介绍了大规模集成电路的可测性设计技术。     

数字调谐系统芯片DTSO614的可测性设计

介绍了集成电路可测性设计的概念和分类方法,然后以数字调谐系统芯片DTS0614为例,具体介绍了其中的一种即针对性可测性设计方法,包括模块划分、增加控制线和观察点.最后给出了提高电路可测性的另一种方法--内建自测试方法.     

VLSI可测性设计研究

从可测性设计与VLSI测试、VLSI设计之间的关系出发，将与可测性设计相关的VLSI测试方法学、设计方法学的内容有机地融合在一起。文中简要地介绍了VLSI可测性设计的理论基础和技术种类，简明地评述了可测性设计的现状和发展趋势，并且探讨了可测性设计的实现方法。     

弹性分组环专用集成电路的可测性设计

根据弹性分组环专用集成电路的具体情况,提出了相应的可测性设计(Design for Test-ability,DFT)方案,综合运用了三种DFT技术:扫描链、边界扫描测试和存储器内建自测试。介绍了三种技术的选取理由和原理,对其具体实现过程和结果进行了详细分析。DFT电路的实现大大降低了专用集成电路的测试难度,提高了故障覆盖率。     

Integration of partial scan and built-in self-test

Partial-Scan based Built-In Self-Test (PSBIST) is a versatile Design for Testability (DFT) scheme, which employs pseudo-random BIST at all levels of test to achieve fault coverages greater than 98% on average, and supports deterministic partial scan at the IC level to achieve nearly 100% fault coverage. PSBIST builds its BIST capability on top a partial scan structure by adding a test pattern generator, an output data compactor, and a PSBIST controller in a way similar to that of deriving a full scan BIST from a full scan structure. However, to make the scheme effective, there is a minimum requirement regarding which flip-flops in the circuit should be replaced by scan flip-flops and/or initialization flip-flops. In addition, test arents are usually added to boost the fault coverage to the range of 95 to 100 percent. These test points are selected based on a novel probabilistic testability measure, which can be computed extremely fast for a special class of circuits. This ciass of circuits is precisely the type of circuits that we obtain after replacing some of the flip-flops.withscan and/or initilization flip-flops. The testability measure is also used for a very useful quick estimation of the fault coverage right after the selection of sean flip-flops, even before the circuit is modified to incorporate PSBIST capability. While PSBIST provides all the benefits of BIST, it incurs lower area overhead and performance degradation than full scan. The area overhead is further reduced when the boundary scan cells are reconfigured for BIST usage.     

Generating a family of testable designs using the BILBO methodology

There are usually many different ways to make a digital circuit testable using the BILBO methodology. Each solution can have different values of test time and area overhead. A design system based on the BILBO methodology has been developed that can efficiently explore the testable design space to generate a family of designs ranging from the minimal test time design to the minimal area overhead design. A designer can select an appropriate design based on trade-offs between test time and area overhead. The branch and bound technique is employed during the exploring process to prune the design space. This significantly reduces the execution time of this process. To effectively bound the exploring process, a very efficient test scheduler has been developed. Unlike previous approaches, this new test scheduler can process a partially testable design as well as a complete testable design. A test schedule for a design is constructed incrementally. The test scheduling procedures are presented along with experimental results that show that this test scheduler usually outperforms existing schedulers. In many cases, it generates an optimal test schedule. Experiments have been performed on several circuits generated by MABAL, a CAD synthesis tool, to demonstrate the performance and practicality of this system.This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Contract No. JFBI90092. The views and conclusions considered in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or the U.S. Government.     

VLSI流水化格型数字滤波器的内建自测试

格型数字滤波器在信号处理领域得到了广泛应用,本文针对VLSI实现的流水化格型数字滤波器,提出了一种内建自测试方案,不需要对其内部基本功能单元作任何更改,且能在较短时间内检测所有的单固定型故障.所有测试序列都采用简单的算术运算产生.通过对已有功能模块如累加器的复用,作为测试序列生成和响应压缩,该方案能实现真速测试并最大程度的减少了硬件占用和系统性能占用.     

数字集成电路故障测试策略和技术的研究进展

IC制造工艺的发展，持续增加着VLSI电路的集成密度，亦日益加大了电路故障测试的复杂性和困难度。作者在承担相应研究课题的基础上，综述了常规通用测试方法和技术，并分析了其局限性。详细叙述了边界扫描测试(BST)标准、可测性设计(DFT)思想和内建自测试(BIST)策略。针对片上系统(SoC)和深亚微米(VDSM)技术给故障测试带来的新挑战，本文进行了初步的论述和探讨。     

Ring-like testing of digital circuits

Here we propose a new approach to the testing of digital devices, which can potentially save diagnostic hardware. An example is given for testing combinational devices. Estimates are given for reliability and hardware complexity, and an algorithm for designing operability tests is described.     

A new DFT methodology for sequential circuits

This paper introduce a new design for testability methodology for sequential circuits based on input/output pin utilization which exploits the possibility of applying test patterns in parallel. The goal is to reduce the test application time maintaining the same fault coverage as the one obtained using full scan. The proposed procedure includes necessary and sufficient conditions which are easily incorporated in a design system and produce the required implementation. Successful experimental results are presented on benchmark circuits:IC test length is reduced on an average by 44% of full scan.This work is partly supported by research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and equipment grants from the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation.     

集成电路可测试性前端设计环境构建

针对高复杂度芯片的生产制造缺陷难以进行充分测试的难题,文中将Mentor公司的4款可测性设计软件集成到芯片前端设计开发流程中,构建相应的设计开发环境。基于此开发环境设计AES算法硬件单元的过程表明,可测试性设计工具能相互配合,很好地支持复杂电路,辅助设计人员正确生成存储器内建自测试电路、边界扫描电路、内部扫描链等多种测试电路,提高了电路的可测试性。     

基于部分扫描的低功耗内建自测试

在分析全扫描内建自测试 (BIST)过高测试功耗原因的基础上 ,提出了一种选择部分寄存器成为扫描单元的部分扫描算法来实现低功耗 BIST。实验表明 ,提出的方法在保证测试覆盖率的条件下能同时降低 BIST的峰值功耗和平均功耗 ,降幅分别高达 46%和 69%。     

一种DC-DC芯片内建可测性设计

DC-DC芯片设计中有许多内部参数需要检测和控制，有限的引脚数目使得直接测试内部参数比较困难. 文中提出一种通用性很强的内建可测性设计方法，在芯片内部设计时只需要增加规模较小的测试电路，就可以在芯片外引脚上测量芯片内部众多的参数.     

GPS基带芯片中存储器的可测性设计

GPS基带芯片中嵌入的存储器采用存储器内建自测试(Memory Built-in-Self-Test,MBIST)技术进行可测性设计,并利用一种改进型算法对存储器内建自测试电路的控制逻辑进行设计,结果表明整个芯片的测试覆盖率和测试效率均得到显著提高,电路性能达到用户要求,设计一次成功.