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A Regression Based Technique for ATE-Aware Test Data Volume Estimation of System-on-Chips
April 27-May 01
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2008.6226th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008)
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Conventional methods to assess the test data volume (TDV) of logic in system-on-chips (SoCs) use intuitive formulae that are often agnostic of the target automatic test equipment (ATE) hardware or the ATE test program compilation process. In this paper, we first show that such ATE-unaware approaches lead to a significant gap between these estimates and the actual tester memory consumed. We also provide a generic solution to this problem by using statistical regression techniques to build an ATE-aware TDV model that accurately estimates test program memory consumption as a function of the design and test pattern characteristics. We have implemented this methodology using an off-the-shelf regression solver in the context of a production test flow. We show that the estimator can be used to compute TDV with very high accuracy for logic tests of various industrial IPcores and SoCs.
Index Terms:
Test Data Volume, Test Time, ATPG, ATE, Tester, Estimation
Citation:
Rajesh Tiwari, Abhijeet Shrivastava, Mahit Warhadpande, Srivaths Ravi, Rubin Parekhji, "A Regression Based Technique for ATE-Aware Test Data Volume Estimation of System-on-Chips," vts, pp.53-58, 26th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (vts 2008), 2008
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