Title
MTR-Fill: A Simulated Annealing-Based X-Filling Technique to Reduce Test Power Dissipation for Scan-Based Designs
Abstract
This paper proposes the minimum transition random X-filling (MTR-fill) technique, which is a new X-filling method, to reduce the amount of power dissipation during scan-based testing. In order to model the amount of power dissipated during scan load/unload cycles, the total weighted transition metric (TWTM) is introduced, which is calculated by the sum of the weighted transitions in a scan-load of a test pattern and a scan-unload of a test response. The proposed MTR-fill is implemented by simulated annealing method. During the annealing process, the TWTM of a pair of test patterns and test responses are minimized. Simultaneously, the MTR-fill attempts to increase the randomness of test patterns in order to reduce the number of test patterns needed to achieve adequate fault coverage. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is shown through experiments for ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.4.1197
IEICE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
low power test, scan-based test, X-filling, test application time
Simulated annealing,Automatic test pattern generation,Fault coverage,Simulation,Computer science,Dissipation,Test compression,Electronic circuit,Randomness,Low-power electronics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E91-D
4
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dongsup Song121.74
Jinho Ahn28327.05
Tae-jin Kim311121.38
Sungho Kang443678.44