Lsi Corporation

Lsi Logic Corporation

Cam Luong Lu

Thai Minh Nguyen

William Shen

Robert Brady Benware

Fabio Mazza

Giuseppe Fomaciari

An apparatus comprising a database, an input module and a software tool. The database may be configured to generate one or more database files representing a design of an integrated circuit (IC). The input module may be configured to generate one or more test structures to test predetermined portions of the design of an IC. The software tool may be configured to automatically generate test scripts to verify timing constraints of the one or more test structures.

Automatic generating of timing constraints for the validation/signoff of test structures

A test clocking scheme that separates the clock driving the functional logic and the memory from the clock driving the test logic and the memory. In other words, the test clocking scheme separates the memory functional clock from the memory test clock into two clock paths. The test clocking scheme provides for the ability to separately shut off either the memory functional clock source or the memory test clock source, provides that less power is required during production testing, and provides that simulation time is reduced during design verification because the functional logic is not clocked.

Test clocking scheme

A method of generating a truncated scan test pattern for an integrated circuit design includes steps of: (a) receiving as input an integrated circuit design; (b) estimating a number of transition delay fault test patterns and a corresponding number of top-off stuck-at fault patterns to achieve maximum stuck-at fault and transition delay fault coverage; (c) truncating the estimated number of transition delay fault patterns to generate a truncated set of transition delay fault patterns so that the truncated set of transition delay fault patterns and the corresponding number of top-off stuck-at fault patterns achieve maximum stuck-at fault and transition delay fault coverage within a selected scan memory limit; and (d) generating as output the truncated set of transition delay fault patterns and the corresponding number of top-off stuck-at fault patterns.

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