Title :
Design of fully testable circuits by functional decomposition and implicit test pattern generation
Author :
Steinbach, B. ; Stockert, M.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Freiburg Univ., Germany
Abstract :
The functional decomposition is known as a method to design digital circuits. The authors want to demonstrate and prove a way to design fully testable combinatorial circuits by this method. Furthermore, they show the opportunity of calculating the test pattern instantly during the synthesis. This pattern generation uses the same data and function terms as the generation of the circuit structure and so it causes only small additional expense
Keywords :
automatic testing; combinatorial circuits; fault location; integrated circuit testing; integrated logic circuits; logic testing; circuit structure; combinatorial circuits; fully testable circuits; function terms; functional decomposition; implicit test pattern generation; Boolean functions; Calculus; Circuit testing; Computer science; Design methodology; Integrated circuit synthesis; Integrated circuit testing; Sequential analysis; Sequential circuits; Test pattern generators;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Test Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., 12th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Cherry Hill, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5440-6
DOI :
10.1109/VTEST.1994.292339