Title
Flexible scan interface architecture for complex SoCs
Abstract
Non-standardized scan interface within and across system-on-chips (SoCs) limits test-data reuse for intellectual properties (IPs). To overcome this limitation, we present a flexible and dynamic scan interface architecture that enables reuse of test-data for a given IP across SoCs with different scan pin configurations. The dynamic nature of this architecture also enables variable shift frequencies across different IPs in a given SoC. The architecture decouples the scan pin requirements from the design cycle of the IPs. It also uses bidirectional scan pins to further reduce test cost by using as few as two pins.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/VTS.2016.7477308
2016 IEEE 34th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
flexible scan interface architecture,complex SoC,system-on-chips,intellectual properties,scan pin configurations,variable shift frequencies
Boundary scan,Dynamic Scan,Architecture,Computer science,Reuse,Electronic engineering,Bandwidth (signal processing),Computer hardware,Embedded system,Design cycle
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1093-0167
2
0.58
References 
Authors
15
7