Power-Constrained, Sessionless SOC Test Scheduling Based on Exploration of I-Schedule State-Space

In the paper, novel sessionless approach to test-schedulling is presented. It utilizes so-called STEPs during special random-search based scheduling algorithm. The algorithm explores the state-space of so-called i-schedules whereas an i-schedule is an integer-vector encoded test-schedule represented by n-touple of STEPs. Proposed algorithm tries to link tests to STEPs in such a way there are no resource sharing conflicts in the best-found test schedule and hopefully, test schedule constraints are met maximally at minimal time and TAM values