Scan Testing of Asynchronous Sequential Circuits
O.A. Petlin, S.B. Furber,
Abstract
A method to design and test asynchronous sequential circuits (ASCs)
based on the micropipeline design style is presented in this paper.
According to the proposed scan test approach the combinational block is
tested separately by scanning the test vectors in and shifting the
responses out of the state registers. This provides for the detection
of all single stuck-at and delay faults in the ASC under test. The
complexity of the test procedure of such a testable ASC is reduced to
that of the combinational circuit. Tests for the combinational circuit
and state holding elements can be derived using standard test
generation techniques.
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Proc. Fifth Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, Buffalo, N.Y., USA
Mar. 16-18, 1995.