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Indino, I., MacNamee, C.
25th IET Irish Signals & Systems Conference 2014 and 2014 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (ISSC 2014/CIICT 2014).
DFT: Scan testing issues and current research
2014
June
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design for testability integrated circuit design integrated circuit testing power supply circuits
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Limerick, Ireland
26-JUN-14
27-JUN-14
An inevitable consequence of technology scaling (and the resulting density growth of transistors) in IC design has been the increased power consumption in a chip during functional mode. Technology scaling has been accompanied by a linear reduction of supply voltage for the devices, but the exponential density increase of transistors allowed power density to continue its rapid ascent to levels that created two new obstacles: heat dissipation issues and power supply problems. These issues get magnified during the application of test techniques such as scan testing which is extensively used because it reduces test time and keeps test cost within a reasonable limit. Scan design is currently the most popular structured design for testability (DFT) method used in industry.
Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Programme with Intel (Ireland)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6912761
10.1049/cp.2014.0690
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