Title
Scan Shift Power Reduction By Gating Internal Nodes
Abstract
We propose a novel approach to reduce overall shift power during test by inserting a predetermined amount of hardware at the output of either scan cells or internal gates. To make the proposed approach scalable, a linear time algorithm, based on an estimated dynamic power computation technique, is used to identify the nodes for hardware insertion. To avoid degrading the timing of the circuit, additional logic is added only at paths that are not timing-critical. The proposed approach significantly outperforms all approaches that gate only scan cells. Experimental results on ISCAS and ITC benchmarks show that on average more than 57% of the dynamic power can be reduced with negligible hardware overhead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1166/jolpe.2010.1085
JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Low Power Test, Scan Shift Power Reduction, Gating Internal Nodes
Design for testing,Gating,Electronic engineering,Dynamic demand,Engineering,Time complexity,Computation,Low-power electronics,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
2
1546-1998
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dheepakkumaran Jayaraman171.54
Rajamani Sethuram2112.26
Spyros Tragoudas362588.87