Title :
A novel test environment for template based QDI asynchronous circuits
Author :
Salehpour, A.-A. ; Zamani, M. ; Rahmani, A.-M. ; Mohammadi, S. ; Pedram, H. ; Marvasti, M.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Tehran, Tehran
fDate :
Aug. 31 2008-Sept. 3 2008
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose an efficient test environment for template based asynchronous circuits. This test environment consists of two major parts: fault simulation and test pattern generation. The fault simulation is based on exploring fault effect on quasi-delay insensitive asynchronous circuits that detects any changes in sequences of predefined signals. The test pattern generation is a high level method based on signal transition graph. The effectiveness of the proposed test environment is shown by experimental results on a set of benchmarks given in the form of templates.
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; fault simulation; high level method; quasi-delay insensitive asynchronous circuits; signal transition graph; template based QDI asynchronous circuits; test pattern generation; Asynchronous circuits; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Clocks; Computational modeling; Delay; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Test pattern generators;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2008. ICECS 2008. 15th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
St. Julien´s
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2181-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2008.4674906
