Producing reliable initialization and test of sequential circuits with pseudorandom vectors
M. Soufi, Yvon Savaria, F. Darlay, Bożena Kamińska · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 1995
In this paper, the initialization of sequential circuits using pseudorandom input patterns is addressed. An extended Markov chain model that covers the initialization phase is proposed. This model supports the theoretical framework used to demonstrate that sequential circuits can be initialized with pseudorandom vectors. This leads to a uniform BIST approach in which initialization and testing are performed together with a single pseudorandom generator.>