DocumentCode
1946054
Title
On the maximization of the sustained switching activity in a processor
Author
Cantoro, R. ; Reorda, M. Sonza ; Rohani, A. ; Kerkhoff, H.G.
Author_Institution
Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politec. di Torino, Turino, Italy
fYear
2015
fDate
6-8 July 2015
Firstpage
34
Lastpage
35
Abstract
Recently, several application areas in the test domain (e.g., burn-in and aging monitoring) started to require suitable input stimuli, able to maximize the switching activity of a certain module for a certain period of time. If the module is part of a processor, this turns into identifying a suitable sequence of instructions, able to maximize the switching activity. This paper proposes a method to attack this problem, and reports some experimental results gathered on a MIPS-like pipelined processor.
Keywords
optimisation; pipeline processing; switching; MIPS-like pipelined processor; aging monitoring; burn-in monitoring; sustained switching activity maximization; Clocks; Computational modeling; Logic gates; Sociology; Statistics; Switches; Switching circuits; aging; burn-in; switching activity;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), 2015 IEEE 21st International
Conference_Location
Halkidiki
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IOLTS.2015.7229826
Filename
7229826
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