Title :
TIGER: testability insertion guidance expert system
Author_Institution :
MCC, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
An overview is given of a knowledge-based testability insertion guidance expert system (TIGER) that provides designers with a systematic approach for creating complex, testable designs. Specifically, this system identifies testability problems early in the design cycle, formulates a test strategy for the design, does ´what-if´ exploration of DFT (design for testability) solutions, plans the invocation of gate-level test tools on design partitions, and develops a low-cost solution to the test problem that satisfies the design goals and constraints. Also described are the experimental results obtained using the system on several real designs.<>
Keywords :
automatic testing; expert systems; integrated circuit testing; logic CAD; logic testing; TIGER; design for testability; experimental results; gate-level test tools; knowledge-based; testability insertion guidance expert system; Circuit testing; Design for testability; Expert systems; Logic testing; Performance evaluation; Process design; Prototypes; Switches; System testing; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Design, 1989. ICCAD-89. Digest of Technical Papers., 1989 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1986-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAD.1989.77013
