Presentation 2022-07-27
A Block Partitioning Method to Accelerate Test Generation for Gate-Exhaustive Faults
Momona Mizota, Toshinori Hosokawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura,
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Abstract(in English) In gate-exhaustive fault model which covers defects in cells, since the number of faults is proportion to that of gates, the numbers of faults and test patterns increase with the increasing in the number of gates. Therefore, for gate-exhaustive faults, a multiple target test generation method which is one of dynamic test compaction methods has been proposed to reduce the number of test patterns. However, the test generation time is problem. Also, region-exhaustive fault model which is defined in block units without defining faults in cell units has been proposed to reduce the number of faults for the test generation. Blocks where region-exhaustive faults are defined was configured such that the number of defined faults is smaller than that of gate -exhaustive faults. However, there are problems such as a decrease in fault coverage for region-exhaustive faults and an increase in the number of test patterns. In this paper, we propose a block partitioning method to reduce the number of region-exhaustive faults while maintaining fault coverage for gate-exhaustive faults. The experimental results for ISCAS89 benchmark circuits showed that the proposed block partitioning method reduced the test generation time by 37.94%, reduced the number of faults by 30.65%, reduced the number of test patterns by 16.75%, and increased the fault coverage for gate-exhaustive faults by 6.97% on average compared to the conventional block partitioning method.
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Keyword(in English) gate-exhaustive fault model / multiple target test generation / region-exhaustive faults / block partitioning / untestable faults
Paper # CPSY2022-3,DC2022-3
Date of Issue 2022-07-20 (CPSY, DC)

Conference Information
Committee CPSY / DC / IPSJ-ARC
Conference Date 2022/7/27(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) SWoPP2022: Parallel, Distributed and Cooperative Processing Systems and Dependable Computing
Chair Michihiro Koibuchi(NII) / Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya(Osaka Univ.) / 津邑 公暁(名工大)
Vice Chair Kota Nakajima(Fujitsu Lab.) / Tomoaki Tsumura(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Toshinori Hosokawa(Nihon Univ.)
Secretary Kota Nakajima(JAIST) / Tomoaki Tsumura(Hitachi) / Toshinori Hosokawa(Nihon Univ.) / (Chiba Univ.)
Assistant Ryohei Kobayashi(Tsukuba Univ.) / Takaaki Miyajima(Meiji Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Computer Systems / Technical Committee on Dependable Computing / Special Interest Group on System Architecture
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Block Partitioning Method to Accelerate Test Generation for Gate-Exhaustive Faults
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) gate-exhaustive fault model
Keyword(2) multiple target test generation
Keyword(3) region-exhaustive faults
Keyword(4) block partitioning
Keyword(5) untestable faults
1st Author's Name Momona Mizota
1st Author's Affiliation Nihon University(Nihon Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Toshinori Hosokawa
2nd Author's Affiliation Nihon University(Nihon Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Masayoshi Yoshimura
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyoto Sangyou University(Kyoto Sangyou Univ.)
Date 2022-07-27
Paper # CPSY2022-3,DC2022-3
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) CPSY-133,DC-134
Page pp.pp.13-18(CPSY), pp.13-18(DC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2022-07-20 (CPSY, DC)