Abstract:
A method for testing very large scale integrated circuit devices, most particularly Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) devices, by applying differently configured sequences of pseudo-random patterns in parallel to each of the input terminals of the device under test (DUT), collecting the output responses from each of the output terminals in parallel, combining these outputs to obtain a signature (MISR = Multiple Input Signature Register) which is a predetermined function of all of the sequences of parallel outputs and comparing the test signature with a known good signature obtained by computer simulation. … The input test stimuli are further altered in a predetermined fashion as a function of the structure of the device to be tested, to individually weight the inputs in favor of more or less binary ones or zeros.
Abstract:
A hybrid random pattern self-test approach is employed in an on-chip fashion to provide desired test signals to circuits on the chip. A simplified weighting circuit is shown to be effective even when only a single bit from a linear feedback shift register is employed for random signal generation. The reduction in linear feedback shift register size and associated weighting circuitry enables the apparatus to be much more readily usable in an on-product configuration thus resulting in significant initial and subsequent test circuit advantages.
Abstract:
A hybrid random pattern self-test approach is employed in an on-chip fashion to provide desired test signals to circuits on the chip. A simplified weighting circuit is shown to be effective even when only a single bit from a linear feedback shift register is employed for random signal generation. The reduction in linear feedback shift register size and associated weighting circuitry enables the apparatus to be much more readily usable in an on-product configuration thus resulting in significant initial and subsequent test circuit advantages.