• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.980-986
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• 2007

Boundary scan test structure(JTAG IEEE 1149.1 standard) that supports an internal scan chain is generally being used to test CUT(circuit under test). Since the internal scan chain can only have a single scan-in port and a single scan-out port; however, existing boundary test methods can not be used when multiple scan chains are present in CUT. Those chains must be stitched to form a single scan chain as shown in this paper. We propose an efficient boundary scan test structure that adds a circuit called Clock Group Register(CGR) for multiple clocks testing within the design of multiple scan chains. The proposed CGR has the function of grouping clocks. By adding CGR to a previously existing boundary scan design, the design is modified. This revised scan design overcomes the limitation of supporting a single scan-in port and out port, and it bolsters multiple scan-in ports and out ports. Through our experiments, the effectiveness of CGR is proved. With this, it is possible to test more complicated designs that have high density with a little effort. Furthermore, it will also benefit in designing those complicated circuits.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.321-327
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• 2003

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.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.458-461
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• 2005

Power dissipated during test application is substantially higher than power dissipated during functional operation which can decrease the reliability and lead to yield loss. This paper presents a new technique for power minimization during test application in full scan sequential circuits. This paper shows freezing of combinational logic parts during scan shift operation in test mode. The freezing technique leads to power to minimization. Significant power reduction in the scan techniques is achieved on ISCAS 89 benchmarks.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2016

System-on-chip (SoC) designs have a number of flip-flops; the more flip-flops an SoC has, the longer the associated scan test application time will be. A scan shift operation accounts for a significant portion of a scan test application time. This paper presents physical-aware approaches for speeding up scan shift operations in SoCs. To improve the speed of a scan shift operation, we propose a layout-aware flip-flop insertion and scan shift operation-aware physical implementation procedure. The proposed combined method of insertion and procedure effectively improves the speed of a scan shift operation. Static timing analyses of state-of-the-art SoC designs show that the proposed approaches help increase the speeds of scan shift operations by up to 4.1 times that reached under a conventional method. The faster scan shift operation speeds help to shorten scan test application times, thus reducing test costs.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제35C권3호
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• pp.1-15
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a partial scan test method which can be applied to large VLSI designs. In this method, it is not necessary to hold neither scanned nor unscanned flip-flops during scan in, test application,or scan out. This test method requires almost identical design for testability modification and test wave form when compared to the full scan test method, and the method is applicable to large VLSI chips. The well known FAN algorithm has been modified to devise to sequential ATPG algorithm which is effective for the proposed test method. In addition, a partial scan algorithm which is effective for the proposed test method. In addition, a partial algorithm determined a maximal set of flip-flops which gives high fault coverage when they are unselected. The experimental resutls show that the proposed method allow as large as 20% flip-flops to remain unscanned without much decrease in the full scan fault coverage.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.504-514
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• 1994

Combinational automatic test pattern generators (CATPG) have already been commercialized because their algorithms are well known and practical, while sequential automatic test pattern generators(SATPG) have been regarded as impractical because they are computationally complex. A technique to use CATPG instead of SATPG for test generation of sequential circuits is proposed. Redesign of seauential circuits such as Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) is inevitable to use CATPG. Various partial scan techniques has been proposed to avoid full scan such as LSSD. It ha sbeen reported that SATPG is required to use partial scan techniques. We propose a technique to use CATPG for a new partial scan technique, and propose a new CATPG algorithm for the partially scanned circuits. The partial scan technique can be another choice of design for testability because it is computationally advantageous.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.412-420
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• 2008

A new scan partition architecture to reduce both the average and peak power dissipation during scan testing is proposed for low-power embedded systems. In scan-based testing, due to the extremely high switching activity during the scan shift operation, the power consumption increases considerably. In addition, the reduced correlation between consecutive test patterns may increase the power consumed during the capture cycle. In the proposed architecture, only a subset of scan cells is loaded with test stimulus and captured with test responses by freezing the remaining scan cells according to the spectrum of unspecified bits in the test cubes. To optimize the proposed process, a novel graph-based heuristic to partition the scan chain into several segments and a technique to increase the number of don't cares in the given test set have been developed. Experimental results on large ISCAS89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed technique, compared to the traditional full scan scheme, can reduce both the average switching activities and the average peak switching activities by 92.37% and 41.21%, respectively.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.188-196
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 테스트 시간과 전력소모를 감축할 수 있는 새로운 테스트 데이터 압축 및 저전력 스캔 테스트 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 수정된 스캔 셀 재배열과 하이브리드 적응적 부호화 방법을 사용하여 scan-in전력과 테스트 데이터 량을 줄였으며 하이브리드 테스트 데이터 압축방법은 Golomb Code와 런길이(run-length) 코드를 테스트 데이터내의 런(run) 길이에 따라서 적응적으로 적용하는 방법이다. 또한 scan-in 전력소모를 최소화하기 위해서 스캔 벡터내의 열 해밍거리를 이용하였다. ISCAS89 벤치마크 회로에 적용하여 실험한 결과, 모든 경우에 있어서 테스트 데이터 및 전력소모를 효율적으로 감소시켰으며 압축률은 17%-26%, 평균 전력소모는 8%-22%, 최고전력소모는 13%-60% 정도의 향상률을 보였다.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제35C권12호
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• pp.49-58
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 무고정 부분 스캔 테스트 방법을 위한 새로운 스캔 선택 알고리즘에 대하여 논한다. 무고정 부분 스캔 테스트 방법은 모든 플립-플롭을 스캔하지 않는다는 점을 제외하면 완전 스캔과 동일한 테스트 방법이다. 이 테스트 방법은 테스트 벡터를 입력, 인가, 혹은 적용 등, 어느 때에도 스캔, 비스캔 중 어느 플립-플롭의 데이터 값도 고정하지 않는다. 제안된 스캔 선택 알고리즘은 무고정 부분 스캔 테스트 방법에서 완전 스캔 고장 검출율을 거의 유지하면서 많은 플립-플롭을 스캔하지 않게 한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.105-112
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 다중 보드를 시험하기 위한 새로운 구조인 확장된 스캔 경로(ESP: Extended Scan Path) 구조를 제안한다. 보드를 시험하기 위한 기존의 구조로는 단일 스캔경로와 다중 스캔 경로가 있다. 단일 스캔경로 구조는 시험 데이타의 전송 경로인 스캔 경로가 하나로 연결되므로 스캔 경로가 단락이나 개방으로 결함이 생기면 나머지 스캔 경로에올바른 시험 데이타를 입력할 수 없다. 다중 스캔 경로 구조는 다중 보드 시험 시 보드마다별도의 신호선이 추가된다 그러므로 기존의 두 구조는 다중 보드 시험에는 부적절하다. 제안된 ESP 구조를 단일 스캔 경로 구조와 비교하면, 스캔 경로 상에 결함이 발생하더라도 그 결함은 하나의 스캔 경로에만 한정되어 다른 스캔 경로의 시험 데이타에는 영향을 주지않는다. 뿐만 아니라, 비스트 (BIST: Built In Self Test)와 IEEE 1149.1 경계면 스캔 시험을 병렬로 수행함으로써 시험에 소요되는 시간을 단축한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 ESP 구조와 기존 시험 구조의 성능을 비교하기 위해서 수치적 비교를 한다.