Title :
Synthesizing fast, online-testable control units
Author :
Hellebrand, S. ; Wunderlich, H.-J. ; Hertwig, A.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Comput. Archit., Stuttgart Univ.
Abstract :
The authors present the self-checking bypass pipeline, an online-testable controller structure for data-dominated applications. For most circuits in a standard benchmark set, this structure leads to a performance improvement of more than 30% with an area overhead less than 15% that of conventional online-testable finite-state machines
Keywords :
error detection; finite state machines; logic testing; area overhead; benchmark set; data-dominated applications; finite-state machines; online-testable control units; online-testable controller structure; performance improvement; self-checking bypass pipeline; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Clocks; Communication system control; Encoding; Error correction; Error correction codes; Fault detection; Logic; Pipelines;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
