Synthesis for testability techniques for asynchronous circuits
Kurt Keutzer, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 1995
Our goal is to synthesize hazard-free asynchronous circuits that are testable in the very stringent hazard-free robust path-delay-fault model. From a synthesis perspective producing circuits satisfying two very stringent requirements, namely, hazard-free operation and hazard-free robust path-delay-fault-testability, poses an especially exciting challenge. Here we present techniques which guarantee both hazard-free operation and hazard-free robust path-delay-fault testability, at the expense of possibly adding test inputs. We also give a set of heuristics which can improve hazard-free robust path-delay-fault testability without requiring such inputs. Finally, we present a procedure that guarantees testability in the less stringent robust gate-delay-fault model.