Built-In Self-Testing of Micropipelines
O.A.Petlin, S.B.Furber
Abstract
An asynchronous ARM6 microprocessor (AMULET1), designed at the University
of Manchester using a two-phase signalling protocol, and the latest release
of the AMULET2e embedded controller, implemented using four-phase
signalling, have proved the practical feasibility of the micropipeline
design approach. A built-in self-test (BIST) micropipeline design based on
an asynchronous BILBO register is presented in this paper. All the stage
registers of the micropipeline are implemented using the proposed
asynchronous BILBO register which can operate in four modes: normal
operation, shift, linear feedback shift register (LFSR) and signature
analyser mode. The test procedure described in this paper provides for the
detection of all single stuck-at faults in the micropipeline. It is shown
that delay faults in the combinational logic blocks of the BIST
micropipeline can be tested by using BILBO registers of a doubled size.
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