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Franc Novak Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia

Electronic test Design for Testability Standards Part of “New Media and e-Science” MSc Programme Fall semester, 2004/2005. Franc Novak Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia. Course contents. design automation essential issues in synthesis design description

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Franc Novak Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  1. Electronic test Design for Testability StandardsPart of“New Media and e-Science” MSc ProgrammeFall semester, 2004/2005 Franc Novak Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia

  2. Course contents • design automation • essential issues in synthesis • design description • high-level synthesis algorithms • electronic test and testable design

  3. electronic test and testable design • test challenges • design-for-test • standardized solutions • experimental boundary-scan environment

  4. increased complexity Moor’s law (1965) continues to hold: the number of transistors on a square inch of silicon doubles every 12 months at the late 1970s: 18 months at 2000: 18 to 24 months (M.L.Bushnell, V.D.Agrawal: Essentials of Electronic Testing)

  5. increased transistor density in comparison with the number of pins d number of transistors Nt = d2 number of I/O pins Np = 4d d increase of testcomplexity: Nt / Np (1997-2001) Nt / Np= 1.1 x 104 (2003-2009) Nt / Np= 2.6 x 104 (2009-2012) Nt / Np= 6.7 x 104

  6. increased speed and ATE cost

  7. Design for testability (DFT) The difficulty of testing can be qualified in terms of • cost of test development, • cost of test application, • cost (or economic consequences) of test escape. The Rule of Ten: The cost of discovering a defective chip increases by an order of magnitude at each successive level of integration, from die/ package, board and system. Design for testability is defined as changes to a given circuit or system design that make the overall testing less difficult.

  8. Testability measures • Controllability of a digital circuit is defined as the difficulty of setting a particular signal of the circuit to logical 0 or 1. • Observability of a digital circuit is defined as the difficulty of observing the state of a particular signal of the circuit. Testability = controllability + observability Testability analysis • involves circuit topological analysis, • does not involve test vectors, • has linear complexity. Goldstein(1979): SCOAP Controllability and Observability

  9. Embedded test approach

  10. test pattern generationresult compression • test pattern generation using Linear Feedback Shift Register (LSFR) • result compression using LSFR response compactor (R.A.Frohwerk “Signature analysis: A new digital field service method”, Hewlett-Packard Journal, 1977

  11. test of embedded memories Conventional ad-hoc techniques • additional logic to route the embedded memory inputs/outputs to external pins • a scan chain around the embedded memory Alternative way • memory BIST approach with on-chip (on-board) generation of test patterns and compression of test results S.K.Jain, C.E.Stroud “Built-in self-testing of embedded memories”, IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1986

  12. problems In-circuit test: problems in mechanical access • complex ICs with smaller pin-to-pin spacing • decreased distance between PCB interconnects • direct mounting of chips on both sides of a PCB

  13. solution to build the test probe directly into the silicon chip

  14. IEEE Std 1149.1 boundary-scan principle: • a shift register boundary cell is placed adjacent to each component pin • boundary-scan cells are interconnected into a shift register

  15. IEEE Std 1149.1 components on a board are connected via one or more serial boundary-scan lines

  16. IEEE Std 1149.1 mandatory instructions: • external test • sample/preload • bypass non-mandatory instructions: • intest, runbist, clamp, idcode, usercode,etc.

  17. IEEE Std 1149.1- extest

  18. IEEE Std. 1149.1 More information: • 1149.1-2001 Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture (IEEE), IEEE catalog number: ST01120, 212 pages. 2001. ISBN 0-7381-2994-5 • Kenneth P. Parker: The Boundary-scan Handbook, second edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-8277-3 • Harry Bleeker, Peter van den Eijnden, Franc de Jong: Boundary-scan Test, A Practical Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-9296-5

  19. IEEE Std 1149.4 can be regarded as extension of IEEE 1149.1 to mixed-signal test

  20. IEEE Std.1149.4 (Mixed-Signal Test Bus)

  21. Analog Boundary Module (ABM)

  22. IEEE Std. 1149.4 This standard defines features that provide standardized approaches to: • interconnect test (testing for opens and shorts among the interconnections in a printed circuit assembly) • parametric test (analog characterization measurements, and testing for presence and value of discrete components in a printed circuit assembly) • internal test (testing the internal circuitry of the mixed-signal chip)

  23. IEEE Std.1149.4 mandatory instructions: • external test • sample/preload • bypass (these instructions are already defined by IEEE 1149.1) aditional mandatory instruction: • probeinstruction allows analog pins to be monitored on the analog bus and/or stimulated from the analog bus during normal operation

  24. IEEE Std. 1149.4 More information: • IEEE 1149.4 Mixed-Signal Test Bus Working Group: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1149/4/ • An overview of the standard, along with a discussion of the architecture and how to use it : http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1149/4/basic_present.ppt • Adam Osseiran: Analog and Mixed-Signal Boundary-Scan: A Guide to the IEEE 1149.4 Test Standard, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

  25. System-on-chip(SOC) • pre-designed, pre-verified, reusable building blocks: embedded cores • shortened design cycle, higher performance, lower power consumption, smaller volume

  26. Embedded core types • Soft core (RTL code) • Firm core (netlist) • Hard core (layout) • Intellectual Property (IP) !!!

  27. System-on-chip(SOC) test problems • Production test of assembled boards consists of a sequence of separate test steps: component tests, bare board test, static test of assembled board (detecting shorts and opens) and dynamic functional test (detecting timing faults). • In the case of testing SOC, all the above tests are merged into one composite test instance. • Furthermore, in most cases direct access to the core terminals is not provided which makes it difficult to run internal tests of deeply embedded cores.

  28. IC tester

  29. Towards SOC test problem solution • Core provider and core user must cooperate • Standardized interface for core test knowledge transfer • IEEE Std. 1500 Standard for Embedded Core Test

  30. Conceptual architecture for testing embedded-cores

  31. wrapper interface

  32. IEEE Std. 1500 instructions • WS_EXTEST (mandatory) allows test of external interconnections • WS_BYPASS (mandatory) • WS_INTEST_RING (optional) these instructions perform internal test • WS_INTEST_SCAN (optional) at least one of them is mandatory • WP_INTEST_RING (optional) • WP_INTEST_SCAN (optional) • WH_INTEST (optional) • WS_PRELOAD (optional) • WP_PRELOAD (optional) • WS_CLAMP (optional) • WS_SAFE (optional) • WP_EXTEST (optional) • WH_EXTEST (optional)

  33. IEEE Std. 1500 More information: • IEEE P1500 Standard for Embedded Core Test (SECT) http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1500/ • Scaleable Architecture http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1500/date03/ctag-date03.pdf

  34. Available test environments • boundary-scan environment (EBS) • sequential diagnosis tool • remote access - Agilent 83000 test system

  35. boundary-scan environment (EBS) SN74ACT8990 boundary-scan controller

  36. boundary-scan test example

  37. boundary-scan test example 2

  38. IEEE 1149.1 test programming boundary-scan bus operations described by IEEE state diagram

  39. SN74BCT8245A test programming

  40. EBS software Linux OS: • device drivers - SN74ACT8990 boundary-scan controller, - parallel port (in preparation) • test development tools - Serial Vector Format (SVF) parser

  41. Serial Vector Format • SVF is the media for exchanging descriptions ofhigh-level IEEE Std. 1149.1 bus operations • SVF description: scan operations and movements between different stable states of the IEEE state diagram • SVF encourages reuse and portability of serial vectors (Texas Instruments Inc. 1994, ASSET InterTech Inc.)

  42. Serial Vector Format commands

  43. Serial Vector Format parser

  44. a simple test program example

  45. possible applications education: • integrity test • interconnection test of a proto board, injected faults (shorts between lines, open lines) research projects • experimental verification of new designs including boundary-scan • IEEE Std. 1149.4 test and measurement techniques

  46. EuNICEtest Project • European Network for Initial and Continuing Education in VLSI/SOC Testing using remote ATE facilities • coordinator: Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM) • partners: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Politecnico di Torino, University of Stuttgart, Jozef Stefan Institute, Agilent Technologies

  47. EuNICEtest Project

  48. Literature General background: • Franklin P. Prosser, David E. Winkel: The art of digital design, Prentice-hall int. editions, ISBN 0-13-046673-5 High-level synthesis: • Daniel Gajski, Nikil Dutt, Allen Wu, Steve Lin: High-level synthesis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-9194-2 • Giovanni De Micheli: Synthesis and optimization of digital circuits, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-016333-2 Electronic test: • Michael L. Bushnell, Vishwani D. Agrawal: Essentials of Electronic Testing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-7991-8

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