• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.30A no.1
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• pp.51-63
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• 1993

"Algorithm DA" is proposed to test linked 2-CFs(2-Coupling Faults) with order 2 or 3 which are not perfectly detected in conventional algorithms. "Test 1*", "Test 2*" and "Algorithm RA" are proposed restricted 3-CFS. The time complexity of "Test 1*" is reduced in view of the detection of 3-CFS. "Test 2*" and "Algorithm RA" have not only the reduces time complexity but also the improved fault coverage in comparison with conventional algorithms. And "Algorithm RA" can be applied step by step according to the degree of the fault coverage. If "Algorithm RA" is applied to the memory with parallel test. its time complexity is reduced considerably. It is proved that the MT(March Test) with nonlinear address sequences can not detect perfectly the CFs more complex than linked 2-CFs with order 3.ss sequences can not detect perfectly the CFs more complex than linked 2-CFs with order 3.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.5 no.1 s.8
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• pp.43-51
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• 2001

As the density of memories increases, unwanted interference between cells and coupling noise between bit-lines are increased. And testing high-density memories for a high degree of fault coverage can require either a relatively large number of test vectors or a significant amount of additional test circuitry. So far, conventional test algorithms have focused on faults between neighborhood cells, not neighborhood bit-lines. In this paper, a new test algorithm for neighborhood bit-line sensitive faults (NBLSFs) based on the NPSFs(Neighborhood Pattern Sensitive Faults) is proposed. And the proposed algorithm does not require any additional circuit. Instead of the conventional five-cell or nine-cell physical neighborhood layouts to test memory cells, a three-cell layout which is minimum size for NBLSFs detection is used. Furthermore, to consider faults by maximum coupling noise by neighborhood bit-lines, we added refresh operation after write operation in the test procedure(i.e.,$write{\rightarrow}\;refresh{\rightarrow}\;read$). Also, we show that the proposed algorithm can detect stuck-at faults, transition faults, coupling faults, conventional pattern sensitive faults, and neighborhood bit-line sensitive faults.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.105-114
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• 2000

Delay testing is essential for assurance of digital circuits as the speed and the density of the circuits improve greatly. However, delay faults in sequential circuits cannot be detected easily due to the existence of state registers. To overcome this difficulty a new test method and algorithm are devised which can be used for both stuck-at testing and delay testing. To apply the new test method, a new scan flip-flop is implemented. Experimental results on ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the number of testable paths can be increased drastically over conventional scan techniques.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.72-85
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• 2007

The development of memory design and process technology enabled the production of high density memory. However, this increased the complexity of the memory making memory testing more complicated, and as a result, it brought about an increase in memory testing costs. Effective memory test algorithm must detect various types of defects within a short testing time, and especially in the case of port memory test algorithm, it must be able to detect single port memory defects, and all the defects in the dual port memory. The March A2PF algorithm proposed in this paper is an effective test algorithm that detects all types of defects relating to the duel port and single port memory through the short 18N test pattern.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1619-1622
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• 2002

최근에 생산되는 디지털 VLSI칩들은 그 집적도가 계속 높아지고 있으며, 이러한 칩들을 장착한 보드의 경우도 그 복잡성이 점차 높아지고 있다. 이에 따라 칩 및 보드에 대한 철저한 테스트 과정이 요구된다. 지금까지 보드 테스트 방법으로 널리 쓰였던 ICT(In-Circuit Test)는 칩의 고집적화에 따른 핀 간격의 조밀화와 SMT(Surface Mount Technology), BGA(Ball Grid Array), MCM(Multi Chip Module) 등의 새로운 패키징 방식의 등장에 따라 테스트 방법으로의 한계성을 드러내고 있다. 이에 대한 대안으로 등장한 IEEE Std 1149.1 은 ICT의 한계성을 극복할 수 있는 기술일 뿐 아니라 여러 가지 장점을 가지고 있으며 그 활용 분야도 다양하다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE Std 1149.1에 따라 설계된 보드 상에서 발생 가능한 고장들에 대한 고장 모델을 제시한다. 또한 각 고장 모델들의 양상과 진단 기법을 제시한다. 이를 통해 IEEE Std 1149.1에 따라 설계된 보드 상에서 발생한 고장들을 검출할 수 있으며, 고장의 종류 및 성격, 그리고 고장의 발생 위치 등의 정보를 얻을 수 있다. IEEE Std 1149.1에 따른 보드 설계가 보드의 신뢰성 보장에 긴요함을 인식하는 계기가 되기를 기대하며 제시된 고장 모델 및 진단 기법이 기술적으로 중요한 참고자료가 되기를 기대한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.72-79
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• 2003

Due to the improvements in circuit design technique and manufacturing technique, complexity of a circuit is growing along with the demand for memories with large capacities. Likewise, as a memory capacity gets larger, testing gets harder and testing cost increases, and testing process in chip development gets larger as well. Therefore, a research on an effective test algorithm to improve the chip yield rate in a short time period is becoming an important task. This paper proposes an effective, March C-algorithm based, test algorithm that can also be applied to a dual-port memory since it considers all the fault types, which can be occurred in a single-port as well as in a dual-port memory, without increasing the test length.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.401-417
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• 1994

In this paper, a new testable design technique for domino CMOS circuits is proposed to detect stuck-at(s-at), stuck-open(s-op) and stuck-on(s-on) faults in the circuits by observing logic test reponses. The proposed technique adds one pMOS transistor per domino CMOS gate for s-op and s-on faults testing of nMOS transistors and one nMOS transistors and one nMOS transistor per domino gate or multilevel circuit to detect s-on faults in pMOS transistors of inverters in the circuit. The extra transistors enable the proposed testable circuit to operate like a pseudo static nMOS circuit while testing nMOS transistors in domino CMOS circuits. Therefore, the two=phase operation of a precharge phase and a evaluation phase is not needed to keep the domino CMOS circuit from malfunctionong due to circuit delays in the test mode, which reduces the testing time and the complexity of test generation. Most faults of th transistors in the proposed testable domino CMOS circuit can be detected by single test patterns. The use of single test patterns makes the testing of the proposed testable domino CMOS circuit free from path delays, timing skews, chage sharing and glitches. In the proposed design, the testing of the faults which, require test sequences also becomes free from test invalidation. The conventional automatic test pattern generators(ATPG) can be used for generating test patterns to detect faults in the circuits.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.84-92
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• 2007

This paper proposes an interconnect delay fault test (IDFT) solution on boards and SoCs based on IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE P1500. A new IDFT system clock rising edge generator which forces output boundary scan cells to update test data at the rising edge of system clock and input boundary scan cells to capture the test data at the next rising edge of the system clock is introduced. Using this proposed circuit, IDFT for interconnects synchronized to different system clocks in frequency can be achieved efficiently. Moreover, the proposed IDFT technique does not require any modification of the boundary scan cells or the standard TAP controller and simplifies the test procedure and reduces the area overhead.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.113-122
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• 2004

A new diagnosis method for FPGA interconnects is developed. The proposed method diagnoses all the fault types for FPGA interconnects. It is also applied to all the modem FPGA devices like Xilinx Virtex FPGAS. Most of all, it takes shorter time to diagnose all the faults than previous diagnosis methods.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.3226-3235
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• 2000

The more complex and larger semiconductor integraed circuits become, the core important delay test becomes which guarantees that semiconductor integrated circuits operate in time. In this paper, we propose a new partial enhanced scan method that can generate test patterns for path delay faults offectively. We implemented a new partial enhanced scan method based on an automatic test pattern generator(ATPG) which uses implication and justification . First. we generate test patterns in the standard scan environment. And if test patterns are not generated regularly in the scan chain, we determine flip-flops which applied enhanced scan flip-flops using the information derived for running an automatic test pattern generator inthe circuti. Determming enhanced scan flip-flops are based on a fault coverage or a hardware overhead. through the expenment for JSCAS 89 benchmark sequential circuits, we compared the fault coverage in the standard scan enviroment and enhance scan environment, partial enhanced scan environment. And we proved the effectiveness of the new partial enhanced scan method by identifying a high fault coverage.