Scan Testing of Micropipelines
O.A. Petlin, S.B. Furber,
Abstract
The micropipeline approach to designing asynchronous VLSI circuits has
successfully been used in the AMULET1 microprocessor. A method to
design and test micropipelines is presented in this paper. The test
strategy is based on the scan test technique. It allows the separate
testing of all the data processing blocks by scanning the test patterns
in and shifting the responses out of the stage registers. The proposed
test approach provides for the detection of all single stuck-at and
delay faults in the micropipeline. Tests for the combinational
processing logic and state holding elements can be derived using
standard test generation techniques.
Full
paper
Proc. 13th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
May 1-3, 1995.