Title
Built-In Self-Test Quality Assessment Using Hardware Fault Emulation In Fpgas
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of test quality assessment, namely of BIST solutions, implemented in FPGA and/or in ASIC, through Hardware Fault Emulation (HFE). A novel HFE methodology and tool is proposed, that, using partial reconfiguration, efficiently measures the quality of the BIST solution. The proposed HFE methodology uses Look-Up Tables (LUTs) fault models and is performed using local partial reconfiguration for fault injection on Xilinx (TM) Virtex and/or Spartan FPGA components, with small binary files. For ASIC cores, HFE is used to validate test vector selection to achieve high fault coverage on the physical structure. The methodology is fully automated. Results on ISCAS benchmarks and on an ARM core show that HFE can be orders of magnitude faster than software fault simulation or fully reconfigurable hardware fault emulation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS
Hardware Fault Emulation, fault coverage, FPGA, BIST, ASIC
Field
DocType
Volume
Test vector,Fault coverage,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Emulation,Virtex,Computer hardware,Fault injection,Control reconfiguration,Reconfigurable computing,Embedded system
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5-6
1335-9150
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Parreira151.13
João Paulo Teixeira214022.06
Marcelino B. Santos312920.76