An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing

Reducing test data size is one of the major challenges in testing systems-on-a-chip. This can be achieved by test compaction and/or compression techniques. Having a partially specified or relaxed test set increases the effectiveness of compaction and compression techniques. In this paper, we propose...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: El-Maleh, A. (author)
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(2002) An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing. Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International conference, 2.
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description Reducing test data size is one of the major challenges in testing systems-on-a-chip. This can be achieved by test compaction and/or compression techniques. Having a partially specified or relaxed test set increases the effectiveness of compaction and compression techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits. It is based on critical path tracing and hence it may result in a reduction in the fault coverage. However, based on experimental results on ISCAS benchmark circuits, the drop in the fault coverage (if any) after relaxation is small for most of the circuits. The technique is faster than the brute-force test relaxation method by several orders of magnitude.
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spelling An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracingEl-Maleh, A.Al-Suwaiyan, A.unknownComputerReducing test data size is one of the major challenges in testing systems-on-a-chip. This can be achieved by test compaction and/or compression techniques. Having a partially specified or relaxed test set increases the effectiveness of compaction and compression techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits. It is based on critical path tracing and hence it may result in a reduction in the fault coverage. However, based on experimental results on ISCAS benchmark circuits, the drop in the fault coverage (if any) after relaxation is small for most of the circuits. The technique is faster than the brute-force test relaxation method by several orders of magnitude.IEEE20022020ArticlePeerReviewedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/mswordhttps://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/id/eprint/14723/1/14723_1.pdfhttps://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/id/eprint/14723/2/14723_2.doc (2002) An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing. Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International conference, 2. enenhttps://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/id/eprint/14723/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai::147232019-11-01T14:07:07Z
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title_full An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing
title_fullStr An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing
title_full_unstemmed An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing
title_short An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing
title_sort An efficient test relaxation technique for combinational circuits based on critical path tracing
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