Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Modifying a scan chain for improved fault diagnosis of integrated circuits
- Patent Title (中): 修改扫描链以改善集成电路的故障诊断
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Application No.: US15097778Application Date: 2016-04-13
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Publication No.: US09562945B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Liang Chen , Guofan Jiang , Teng Lin , Yang Liu
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent L. Jeffrey Kelly
- Priority: CN201210130364 20120427
- Main IPC: G01R31/28
- IPC: G01R31/28 ; G01R31/317 ; G01R31/3177 ; G01R31/3185

Abstract:
A computer program product for implementing a scan chain to test a semiconductor including one or more computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions including: program instructions to obtain an initial structure of the scan chain, program instructions to determine, according to function modules of the semiconductor corresponding to scan registers on the scan chain, at least one scan register pair with backward dependency, program instructions to adjust the initial structure of the scan chain such that the at least one scan register pair with backward dependency becomes a scan register pair with forward dependency, and program instructions to determine a key subset of a fan-out scan register in the at least one scan register pair with backward dependency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160223611A1 MODIFYING A SCAN CHAIN FOR IMPROVED FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
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