Res Saleh, University of British Columbia, Canada
In this paper, we present a novel built-in self-test methodology for testing the inter-switch links of network-on-chip (NoC) based chips. This methodology uses a high-level fault model that accounts for crosstalk effects due to inter-wire coupling. The novelty of our approach lies in the progressive reuse of the NoC infrastructure to transport test data to its own components under test in a bootstrap manner, and in extensively exploiting the inherent parallelism of the data transport mechanism to reduce the test time and implicitly the test cost.
Index Terms:
built-in self-test, network-on-chip, interconnect infrastructure, unicast test, multicast test.
Citation:
Cristian Grecu, Partha Pande, Andr? Ivanov, Res Saleh, "BIST for Network-on-Chip Interconnect Infrastructures," vts, pp.30-35, 24th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2006