Title
Pgen: A Novel Approach To Sequential Circuit Test Generation
Abstract
A novel approach, called PGEN, is proposed to generate test patterns for resettable or nonresettable synchronous sequential circuits, PGEN contains two major routines, Sequential PODEM (S-PODEM) and a differential fault simulator. Given a fault, S-PODEM uses the concept of multiple time compression supported by a pulsating model, and generates a test vector in a single (yet compressed) time frame. Logic simulation (included in S-PODEM) is invoked to expand the single test vector into a test sequence. The single test vector generation methodology and logic simulation are well coordinated and significantly facilitate sequential circuit test generation, A modified version of differential fault simulation is also implemented and included in PGEN to cover other faults detected by the expanded test sequence. Experiments using computer simulation have been conducted, and results are quite satisfactory.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1155/1996/68463
VLSI DESIGN
Keywords
DocType
Volume
resettable or nonresettable synchronous sequential circuits, PODEM and sequential PODEM or S-PODEM, pulsating test generation or PGEN, differential fault simulator, multiple time compression
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1065-514X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen-Ben Jone141946.30
Nigam Shah221220.11
Anita Gleason300.68
Sunil R. Das4187187.91