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Adding Testability to an Asynchronous Interconnect for GALS SoC
Kenting, Taiwan November 15-November 17
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Aristides Efthymiou, University of Manchester
John Bainbridge, University of Manchester
Douglas A. Edwards, University of Manchester
Asynchronous circuits offer great potential for solving the interconnect problems faced by system-on-chip designers, but their adoption has been held back by a lack of methodology and support for fabrication testing of such circuits. This paper addresses this problem using a partial scan approach which achieves a test coverage of 99.5% on the CHAIN network-on-chip interconnect fabric which is used as an example. Test patterns are generated by a custom program automatically, given the topology of the interconnect. In comparison to standard, asynchronous, full-scan LSSD methods, area savings in the order of 50% are noted.
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Aristides Efthymiou, John Bainbridge, Douglas A. Edwards, "Adding Testability to an Asynchronous Interconnect for GALS SoC," ats, pp.20-23, 13th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'04), 2004
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