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| Title: | 基於提高SOC多頻測試排程效能的測試處理機制演算法 |
| Other Titles: | An efficient scheduling algorithm based on multi-frequency TAM for SOC testing |
| Authors: | 馬嘉興;Ma, Jia-shing |
| Contributors: | 淡江大學電機工程學系碩士班
饒建奇;Rau, Jiann-chyi |
| Keywords: | 測試排程;系統晶片;SOC;Testing;TAM |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Issue Date: | 2010-01-11 07:20:01 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | 近年來許多有關於測試處理機制(TAM)的最佳化已經廣泛的被討論，隨之而來的便是對於單晶片系統(System-on-Chip) 越來越嚴謹的環境限制，其中包括：內嵌電路(Embedded core)操作頻率的上限、測試處理機制的寬度(TAM Width)大小、整體功耗(Power consumption)的表現…等等，這些因素在在的影響了測試處理機制最佳化的結果，更進一步來說，也對於整體單晶片系統的測試時間(Test application time)與上市時間(Time-to-Market)有很大的影響。但往往這些研究所提出的方法都不能是一個完整符合現實的測試方案，而是只針對其中某一兩種的限制加以探討而已。
隨著單晶片系統(SOC)的發展與製程上的進步，未來在測試上其複雜度是必定是難以估計的，所以如何提高其測試速度縮短測試時間，又能夠符合單晶片系統在實際生活上的表現，這才是我們所重視的。目前對於單晶片系統的測試主要可分成內部與外部的測試；內部來說，主要是在電路中加上內建自我測試(Built-in Self Test)電路，對於測試樣本(Test Pattern)的結果做壓縮、分析等工作，但由於面積成本需求，目前主要還是以外部測試為主，外部測試是以自動測試機台(Automatic Test Equipment，簡稱ATE)將所需的測試樣本灌入電路中，再由得到的測試結果輸出回ATE做分析。這樣的方法不僅在面積成本節省不少，也能更為精準的對單晶片系統作測試。
由於目前自動測試機台的操作頻率(Angilent 93000: ~GHz)都高於SOC的操作頻率(~百MHz)，因此，如何充分的利用其頻率的關係，利用頻寬在測試寬度運用上加以考量，作一個有效的測試排程設計便是我們研究的重點。除此之外，單晶片系統上的階層關係(Hierarchy level)也限制著頻寬的使用。當然我們也知道，測試時的功耗遠大於一般模式下的操作，所以對於測試時的功耗問題，我們也一併納入考慮。如此考慮三重限制的條件下，我們制定出一套更有效率的測試排程演算法以縮短單晶片系統的整體測試時間。
Recent advance in TAM optimization has discussed broadly. The actual restrictions considered are more and more rigorous in their method. For example, they maybe think about the embedded core frequency or power consumption during TAM optimization. But some of the researches usually consider incomplete. It can not do the comprehensive doing in the test amount. Therefore, we take into account the optimization problem as below: first, as each core with different work frequency, we can roughly divide these cores into two sets; high and low frequency; second, each core has its own power consumption under test processes; third, the hierarchy relation does exist between each core.
In recent years the advance of CMOS technology has led to a great development, especially on the complexity of the system-on-chip (SOC). It not only increases the layout complexity but also increase the degree of difficulty. As the development of circuit with different technology, the embedded cores embedded into system-on-chips (SOCs) usually have multi-frequency to drive it. In other words, a core may work under different clock cycles. This ability was restricted by its frequency limitation. The total is come to say, all of the core’s working frequency can be divided roughly into two kinds: low-frequency and high-frequency. If we want to test a core at high-speed, we must to be transported the test data at high data rate. This work can be done by ATEs include the Agilent 93000 series tester [1]. But the speech in fact, the test channels with high data rate are constrained on the ATE resource limitations, power rating of the SOC, and scan frequency limit for the embedded cores. On these premise, optimization technique must ensure all of the constraint has already considered, such that high-frequency channels can be used reasonable during SOC test.
In this paper, we present a heuristic approach of TAM optimization according to the reality and reduce the test application time. Unlike prior methods that consider the incomplete situation, the proposed method is applicable to the real-world design model with hierarchy SOCs. We pay the price in hardware overhead in order to decrease test application time. |
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