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Using a massively parallel architecture for integrated circuits testing
San Remo, Italy January 25-January 27
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EMPDP.1995.3891903rd Euromicro Workshop on Parallel an ...
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F. Gregoretti, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
C. Passerone, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
The paper describes the application of a prototype of a massively parallel processing machine to the acceleration of a number of tasks in the debugging of Integrated Circuits by the use of Scanning Electron Microscopy. In particular the machine is used in a number of low level image processing tasks taking advantage in some cases of the specific characteristics of the images of the surface of a VLSI integrated circuit. Preliminary results show that, even with the current experimental prototype, the performance figures for these tasks are one order of magnitude better than those of a state of the art workstation.
Index Terms:
parallel architectures; integrated circuit testing; image processing; massively parallel architecture; integrated circuits testing; Scanning Electron Microscopy; Integrated Circuits; VLSI integrated circuit; prototype; low level image processing
Citation:
F. Gregoretti, C. Passerone, "Using a massively parallel architecture for integrated circuits testing," pdp, pp.332, 3rd Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1995
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