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High quality testing of grid style power gating

High quality testing of grid style power gating
High quality testing of grid style power gating
This paper shows that existing delay-based testing techniques for power gating exhibit fault coverage loss due to unconsidered delays introduced by the structure of the virtual voltage power-distribution-network (VPDN). To restore this loss, which could reach up to 70.3% on stuck-open faults, we propose a design-for-testability (DFT) logic that considers the impact of VPDN on fault coverage in order to constitute the proper interface between the VPDN and the DFT. The proposed logic can be easily implemented on-top of existing DFT solutions and its overhead is optimized by an algorithm that offers trade-off flexibility between test-application-time and hardware overhead. Through physical layout SPICE simulations, we show complete fault coverage recovery on stuck-open faults and 43.2% test-application-time improvement compared to a previously proposed DFT technique. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first analysis of the VPDN impact on test quality
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Tenentes, Vasileios, Khursheed, Syed Saqib, Al-Hashimi, Bashir M., Zhong, Shida and Yang, Sheng (2014) High quality testing of grid style power gating. 23rd Asian Test Symposium (ATS), Hangzhou, China. 16 - 19 Nov 2014. pp. 1-6 . (doi:10.1109/ATS.2014.37).

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Abstract

This paper shows that existing delay-based testing techniques for power gating exhibit fault coverage loss due to unconsidered delays introduced by the structure of the virtual voltage power-distribution-network (VPDN). To restore this loss, which could reach up to 70.3% on stuck-open faults, we propose a design-for-testability (DFT) logic that considers the impact of VPDN on fault coverage in order to constitute the proper interface between the VPDN and the DFT. The proposed logic can be easily implemented on-top of existing DFT solutions and its overhead is optimized by an algorithm that offers trade-off flexibility between test-application-time and hardware overhead. Through physical layout SPICE simulations, we show complete fault coverage recovery on stuck-open faults and 43.2% test-application-time improvement compared to a previously proposed DFT technique. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first analysis of the VPDN impact on test quality

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e-pub ahead of print date: 5 September 2014
Published date: November 2014
Venue - Dates: 23rd Asian Test Symposium (ATS), Hangzhou, China, 2014-11-16 - 2014-11-19
Organisations: Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 368706
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368706
PURE UUID: d6512814-82b7-4ef3-8f8c-84c553595bb5

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Author: Vasileios Tenentes
Author: Syed Saqib Khursheed
Author: Bashir M. Al-Hashimi
Author: Shida Zhong
Author: Sheng Yang

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