scholarly journals A New Hybrid Test Pattern Generator for Stuck-at –Fault and Path Delay Fault in Scan Based Bist

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.27) ◽  
pp. 476
Author(s):  
C Karthikeyini ◽  
K Anandhi

Testing for delay and stuck-at faults needs a pattern of two checks and test sets square measure sometimes more. Built self-test (BIST) schemes square measure enticing for such comprehensive testing. The BIST check pattern generators (TPGs) for such testing ought to be designed accustomed guarantee high pattern-pair coverage. Within the planned work, necessary and decent conditions to complete/ supreme pattern-pair coverage for consecutive circuit has been derived. A replacement check data-compression theme that's a hybrid approach between external testing and inbuilt self-test (BIST) is analyzed. The planned approach is predicated on weighted pseudorandom testing and uses a unique approach for pressing and storing the load sets. Most existing check generation tools square measure either inefficient in mechanically characteristic the longest checkable methods thanks to the high process complexness or don't support at speed test mistreatment existing sensible design-for-testability structures, like scan style. During this work a check generation methodology for scan-based synchronous consecutive circuits is conferred, below 2 at-speed check methods employed in trade. The approach provides a balanced trade-off between accuracy and potency. Experimental results show promising runtime and fault coverage enhancements over existing ways. 

This paper primarily focuses on designing a new Built in self test (BIST) methodology to test the configurable logic blocks (CLBs) which is the heart of field programmable gate array (FPGA). The proposed methodology targets stuck-at-0/1 faults on a RAM cell in an LUT which constitutes about 90% of the total faults in the CLBs. No extra area overhead is needed to accommodate the test pattern generators (TPGs) and output responses analyzers (ORAs) as they are realized by the already existing configurable resources on the FPGA.A group of CLBs chosen as block under test (BUT) are configured as complementary gates (AND/NAND, OR/NOR, XOR/XNOR) to successfully test the aforementioned faults. The proposed BIST structure when implemented on Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA proved 100% fault coverage and minimized test configurations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Mohamed H. El-Mahlawy ◽  
Sherif Hussein ◽  
Gouda I. Mohamed

In this paper, a new hybrid test strategy, called hybrid-based self-test (HYBST), is presented to test complex digital circuits such as microcontrollers. This test strategy integrates the signature multi-mode hardware-based self-test (SM-BST) with the software-based self-test (SBST). In this test strategy, the microcontroller is divided into a number of main modules, and then test subroutines are used to functionally test each module, based on its instruction set architecture (ISA). The ISA is used to generate test subroutines that represent test pattern generators (TPGs) and part of the test controller. The SMHBST represents the other part of the test controller and the test response compaction (TRC). The experimental results illustrate the superiority of the HYBST in the memory utilization, test application time, testing of internal modules of the microcontroller, and testing of general-purpose input-output (GPIO) pins of the microcontroller. In addition, an integrated test solution for fault diagnosis of the circuit boards including random logic integrated circuits (ICs) and microcontroller chips is presented to indicate a real practical test strategy.


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