Title :
Utilizing NOPs for online deterministic testing of simple processing cores
Author :
Jafari, Rasoul ; Salehi, Elham Zahraei ; Navabi, Zain
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
This paper proposes a method for online deterministic testing of processors that can detect online errors. It uses processor resources that are idle during NOP instructions to fetch deterministic test vectors from a non-volatile memory, and apply them to the processor using a low cost controller.
Keywords :
automatic testing; NOP instructions; low cost controller; nonvolatile memory; online deterministic testing; online errors; processing cores; Multicore processing; Nonvolatile memory; Pipelines; Program processors; Reliability; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS), 2015 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Naples
DOI :
10.1109/DTIS.2015.7127347
