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ENGL
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Reordering Algorithm for Minimizing Test Power in VLSI Circuits
— Power consumption has become a crucial concern in Built In Self Test (BIST) due to the switching activity in the circuit under test(CUT). In this paper we present a novel metho...
K. Paramasivam, K. Gunavathi
ISVLSI
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Joint Minimization of Power and Area in Scan Testing by Scan Cell Reordering
This paper describes a technique for re-ordering of scan cells to minimize power dissipation that is also capable of reducing the area overhead of the circuit compared to a random...
Shalini Ghosh, Sugato Basu, Nur A. Touba
CEC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic power minimization during combinational circuit testing as a traveling salesman problem
Testing of VLSI circuits can cause generation of excessive heat which can damage the chips under test. In the random testing environment, high-performance CMOS circuits consume sig...
Artem Sokolov, Alodeep Sanyal, L. Darrell Whitley,...
VLSID
2002
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
A Novel Method to Improve the Test Efficiency of VLSI Tests
This paper considers reducing the cost of test application by permuting test vectors to improve their defect coverage. Algorithms for test reordering are developed with the goal o...
Hailong Cui, Sharad C. Seth, Shashank K. Mehta