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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
May. 08, 1998
Nur A Touba, Austin, TX (US);
Edward J McCluskey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
A low-overhead scheme for built-in self-test of digital designs incorporating scan allows for complete (100%) fault coverage without modifying the function logic and without degrading system performance (beyond using scan). By altering a pseudo-random bit sequence with bit-fixing logic at an LFSR's serial output, deterministic test cubes that detect random pattern-resistant faults are generated. A procedure for synthesizing the bit-fixing logic allows for complete fault coverage with low hardware overhead. Also, the present approach permits the use of small LFSR's for generating the pseudo-random bit sequence. The faults that are not detected because of linear dependencies in the LFSR can be detected by generating more deterministic cubes at the expense of additional bit-fixing logic.