Scan chain organization for embedded diagnosis
Melanie Elm, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich · 2008
Keeping diagnostic resolution as high as possible while maximizing the compaction ratio is subject to research since the advent of embedded test. In this paper, we present a novel scan design methodology to maximize diagnostic resolution when compaction is employed. The essential idea is to consider the diagnostic resolution during the clustering of scan elements to scan chains. Our methodology does not depend on a fault model and is helpful with any type of compactor.