High Launch Switching Activity Reduction in At-Speed Scan Testing using CTX: A Clock-Gating-Based Test Relaxation and X-Filling Scheme - LIRMM - Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
Journal Articles IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Year : 2010

High Launch Switching Activity Reduction in At-Speed Scan Testing using CTX: A Clock-Gating-Based Test Relaxation and X-Filling Scheme

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At-speed scan testing is susceptible to yield loss risk due to power supply noise caused by excessive launch switching activity. This paper proposes a novel two-stage scheme, namely CTX (Clock-Gating-Based Test Relaxation and X-Filling), for reducing switching activity when a test stimulus is launched. Test relaxation and X-filling are conducted (1) to make as many FFs as possible inactive by disabling corresponding clock control signals of clock-gating circuitry in Stage-1 (Clock-Disabling), and (2) to equalize the input and output values in Stage-2 of as many remaining active FFs as possible (FF-Silencing). CTX effectively reduces launch switching activity and thus yield loss risk even when only a small number of don't care (X) bits are present (as in test compression) without any impact on test data volume, fault coverage, performance, or circuit design.
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lirmm-00406963 , version 1 (17-07-2020)

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Kohli Miyase, Hideo Furukawa, Patrick Girard, Xiaoqing Wen, Yuta Yamato, et al.. High Launch Switching Activity Reduction in At-Speed Scan Testing using CTX: A Clock-Gating-Based Test Relaxation and X-Filling Scheme. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2010, E93-D (1), pp.2-9. ⟨10.1587/transinf.E93.D.2⟩. ⟨lirmm-00406963⟩
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