Testing of Vega2, a chip multi-processor with spare processors.
Samy Makar, Tony Altinis, N. Patkar, Janet Wu · 2007
Vega2 is a CMP (chip multi-processor) with 48 processor cores, and several spare cores to improve yield. The chip also contains about 1000 memory macros both inside and outside the processor cores. The larger memories have column redundancy as well. The main DFT challenge for Vega2 is to produce an architecture that makes it easy to identify defective processors, thoroughly test the memories and efficiently apply ATPG patterns.