Presentation 2017-11-07
On Avoiding Test Data Corruption by Optimal Scan Chain Grouping
Yucong Zhang, Stefan Holst, Xiaoqing Wen, Kohei Miyase, Seiji Kajihara, Jun Qian,
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Abstract(in English) Scan shift operations cause many gates to switch simultaneously. As a result, excessive IR-drop may occur, disrupting the states of some scan flip-flops and thus corrupting test stimuli or test responses. A widely-adopted approach to solving this problem is to design multiple scan chains and shift only a group of of them at a time. This paper presents a novel scan chain grouping algorithm for reducing the probability of test data corruption caused by excessive instantaneous IR-drop on scan flip-flops. Experimental results show significant improvement of shift-power safety on all large ITC’99 benchmark circuits.
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Keyword(in English) scan testshift powerLSI testDFTIR-dropscan chain groupingtest data corruptiontest power
Paper # VLD2017-42,DC2017-48
Date of Issue 2017-10-30 (VLD, DC)

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Committee VLD / DC / CPSY / RECONF / CPM / ICD / IE / IPSJ-SLDM / IPSJ-EMB / IPSJ-ARC
Conference Date 2017/11/6(3days)
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Place (in English) Kumamoto-Kenminkouryukan Parea
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Topics (in English) Design Gaia 2017 -New Field of VLSI Design-
Chair Hiroyuki Ochi(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Michiko Inoue(NAIST) / Koji Nakano(Hiroshima Univ.) / Masato Motomura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Fumihiko Hirose(Yamagata Univ.) / Hideto Hidaka(Renesas) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Kiyoharu Hamaguchi(Shimane Univ.) / 渡辺 晴美(東海大) / Masahiro Goshima(NII)
Vice Chair Noriyuki Minegishi(Mitsubishi Electric) / Satoshi Fukumoto(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Hidetsugu Irie(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takashi Miyoshi(Fujitsu) / Yuichiro Shibata(Nagasaki Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(Tohoku Univ.) / Mayumi Takeyama(Kitami Inst. of Tech.) / Makoto Nagata(Kobe Univ.) / Kazuya Kodama(NII) / Hideaki Kimata(NTT)
Secretary Noriyuki Minegishi(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Satoshi Fukumoto(NTT) / Hidetsugu Irie(Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) / Takashi Miyoshi(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yuichiro Shibata(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(Hokkaido Univ.) / Mayumi Takeyama(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Makoto Nagata(e-trees.Japan) / Kazuya Kodama(Nihon Univ.) / Hideaki Kimata(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / (Univ. of Tokyo) / (Panasonic) / (Nagoya Univ.)
Assistant / Masayuki Arai(Nihon Univ.) / Yasuaki Ito(Hiroshima Univ.) / Tomoaki Tsumura(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Yuuki Kobayashi(NEC) / Hiroki Nakahara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yuichi Akage(NTT) / Masanori Natsui(Tohoku Univ.) / Masatoshi Tsuge(Socionext) / Hiroyuki Ito(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Pham Konkuha(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Yasutaka Matsuo(NHK) / Kazuya Hayase(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Technical Committee on Dependable Computing / Technical Committee on Computer Systems / Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems / Technical Committee on Component Parts and Materials / Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology / Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems / Special Interest Group on System Architecture
Language ENG
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Title (in English) On Avoiding Test Data Corruption by Optimal Scan Chain Grouping
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) scan testshift powerLSI testDFTIR-dropscan chain groupingtest data corruptiontest power
1st Author's Name Yucong Zhang
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
2nd Author's Name Stefan Holst
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
3rd Author's Name Xiaoqing Wen
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
4th Author's Name Kohei Miyase
4th Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
5th Author's Name Seiji Kajihara
5th Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(KIT)
6th Author's Name Jun Qian
6th Author's Affiliation Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(AMD)
Date 2017-11-07
Paper # VLD2017-42,DC2017-48
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) VLD-273,DC-274
Page pp.pp.91-94(VLD), pp.91-94(DC),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2017-10-30 (VLD, DC)