• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.229-236
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• 2005

Testing time and power consumption during testing System-On-a-Chip (SOC) are becoming increasingly important as the IP core increases in a SOC. We present a new algorithm to reduce the scan-in power and test data volume using the modified scan latch reordering. We apply scan latch reordering technique for minimizing the hamming distance in scan vectors. Also, during scan latch reordering, the don't care inputs in scan vectors are assigned for low power and high compression. Experimental results for ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that reduced test data and low power scan testing can be achieved in all cases.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.1045-1054
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• 2002

We present a new low power scan testing and test data compression mothod lot System-On-a-Chip (SOC). The don't cares in unspecified scan vectors are mapped to binary values for low Power and encoded by adaptive encoding method for higher compression. Also, the scan-in direction of scan vectors is determined for low power. Experimental results for full - scanned versions of ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed method has both low power and higher compression.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.85-95
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• 2004

As the design complexity increases, it is a major problem that the size of test pattern is large and power consumption is high in scan, especially system-on-a-chip(SoC), with the automatic test equipment(ATE). Because static compaction of test patterns heads to higher power for testing, it is very hard to reduce the test pattern volume for low power testing. This paper proposes an efficient compression/decompression algorithm based on run-length coding for reducing the amount of test data for low power testing that must be stored on a tester and be transferred to SoC. The experimental results show that the new algorithm is very efficient by reducing the memory space for test patterns and the hardware overhead for the decoder.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.437-443
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the power-aware test framework for Network-on-Chip, which is based on embedded processor and on-chip network. First, the possibility of using embedded processor and on-chip network isintroduced and evaluated with benchmark system to test the other embeddedcores. And second, a new generation method of test pattern is presented to reduce the power consumption of on-chip network, which is called don't care mapping. The experimental results show that the embedded processor can be executed like the automatic test equipments, and the test time is reduced and the power consumption is reduced up to 8% at the communication components.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.188-196
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• 2005

This paper presents a new test data compression and low power scan test method that can reduce test time and power consumption. A proposed method can reduce the scan-in power and test data volume using a modified scan cell reordering algorithm and hybrid adaptive encoding method. Hybrid test data compression method uses adaptively the Golomb codes and run-length codes according to length of runs in test data, which can reduce efficiently the test data volume compare to previous method. We apply a scan cell reordering technique to minimize the column hamming distance in scan vectors, which can reduce the scan-in power consumption and test data. Experimental results for ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that reduced test data and low power scan testing can be achieved in all cases. The proposed method showed an about a 17%-26% better compression ratio, 8%-22% better average power consumption and 13%-60% better peak power consumption than that of previous method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.10 s.352
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• pp.104-110
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• 2006

The huge test data volume, test time and power consumption are major problems in system-on-a-chip testing. To tackle those problems, we propose a new test data compression technique. Initially, don't-cares in a pre-computed test cube set are assigned to reduce the test power consumption, and then, the fully specified low-power test data is transformed to improve compression efficiency by neighboring bit-wise exclusive-or (NB-XOR) scheme. Finally, the transformed test set is compressed to reduce both the test equipment storage requirements and test application time.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.201-206
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the efficient low power test methodology of NoC(Network-on chip) for the test of core-based systems that use this platform. To reduce the power consumption of transferring data through router channel, the scan vectors are partitioned into flits by channel width. The don't cares in unspecified scan vectors are mapped to binary values to minimize the switching rate between flits. Experimental results for full-scanned versions of ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed method leads to about 35% reduction in test power.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.635-638
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• 2002

BIST(Built-In Self-Test)를 이용한 테스트 방식은 정상 동작 모드인 회로에 비해 테스트 모드에서 보다 많은 스위칭이 발생하고, 과도한 전력 소모에 의해 회로가 손상을 받을 수 있는 문제점을 갖고 있다. 본 논문은 test-per-clock BIST 구조에서 전력이 제한되어 있을 때 테스트 적용 시간과 총 에너지 소비를 최소화하기 위한 테스트 스케줄링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 테스트 세션을 구성함에 있어 각 세션에 포함되는 각 블록의 테스트 시작 시간을 동적으로 결정하여 기존의 알고리즘에 비하여 전력 소모와 전체 테스트 시간을 줄일 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.8
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• pp.29-35
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• 2010

In this paper we propose a new pattern generator for a BIST architecture that can reduce the power consumption during test application. The principle of the proposed method is to reconstruct an LFSR circuit to reduce WSAs of the heavy nodes by suppressing the heavy inputs. We propose algorithms for finding heavy nodes and heavy inputs. Using the Modified LFSR which consists of some AND/OR gates trees and an original LFSR, BIST applies modified test patterns to the circuit under test. The proposed BIST architecture with small hardware overhead effectively reduces the average power consumption during test application while achieving high fault coverage. Experimental results on the ISCAS benchmark circuits show that average power reduction can be achieved up to 30.5%.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1205-1208
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 분할된 스캔을 이용한 저전력 BIST 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 BIST는 내부 스캔 패스를 회로의 구조적인 정보와 테스트 패턴 집합의 특성에 따라 4개의 스캔 패스로 분할하고 일부 스캔 패스에만 입력패턴이 인가되도록 설계하였다. 따라서 테스트 패턴 입력 시에 스캔 패스로의 쉬프트 동작 수를 줄임으로써 회로 내부의 전체 상태천이 수를 줄일 수 있다. 또한 4개로 분할되는 스캔패스의 길이를 고려하여 각 스캔 패스에 대해 1/4의 속도로 낮춰진 테스트 클럭을 인가함으로써 전체 회로의 전력 소모를 줄일 수 있도록 하였다. ISCAS89 벤치마크 회로에 대한 실험을 통하여 제안하는 BIST 구조가 기존 BIST 구조에 비해 최대 21%까지 전력소모를 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.