• DocumentCode
    1468329
  • Title

    Speeding Up Emulation-Based Diagnosis Techniques for Logic Cores

  • Author

    Lu, Shyue-Kung ; Huang, Shi-Yu ; Wu, Cheng-Wen ; Chen, Yin-Mou

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    88
  • Lastpage
    97
  • Abstract
    This article proposes a new approach for an FPGA-based emulation system for IC fault diagnosis that incorporates three speedup techniques: circuit partitioning, fault-injection elements (using a novel design), and a fault-injection scan chain. Experimental results in terms of hardware overhead and emulation time for ISCAS-85 benchmark circuits are compared with previous works to highlight the 33× speedup and 44% reduced overhead of this proposed system.
  • Keywords
    fault diagnosis; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit testing; logic testing; FPGA-based emulation system; IC fault diagnosis; circuit partitioning; emulation-based diagnosis technique; fault-injection element; fault-injection scan chain; logic cores; Benchmark testing; Circuit faults; Emulation; Fault diagnosis; Field programmable gate arrays; Logic gates; circuit partitioning; design and test; fault emulation; fault injection; fault-injection scan chain; logic diagnosis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7475
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MDT.2011.25
  • Filename
    5728786