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Low Overhead DFT Using CDFG by Modifying Controller

Hosseinabady, M.
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Lotfi-Kamran, P.  
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Lombardi, F
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2007
IET computers & digital techniques

A novel design-for-test (DFT) method that requires minor modifications to the controller in the register-transfer level (RTL) description of a circuit is presented. The control/data flow graph representation of an RTL circuit is used for analysing the testability of individual RTL operations within the RTL circuit. Using a non-scan arrangement, existing data paths are utilised to provide controllability and observability to RTL operations. Furthermore, additional data paths are introduced by altering the controller states or adding new transitions. This method considerably reduces the test application time by ignoring unnecessary control states in the test process. The proposed method is applied to behavioural and RTL benchmarks. The results show the effectiveness of this method when compared with some other DFT insertion methods.

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research article
DOI
10.1049/iet-cdt:20050133
Author(s)
Hosseinabady, M.
Lotfi-Kamran, P.  
Lombardi, F
Navabi, Z.
Date Issued

2007

Published in
IET computers & digital techniques
Volume

1

Issue

4

Start page

322

End page

333

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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PARSA  
Available on Infoscience
May 23, 2009
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/40201
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