In this article, the use of Multiple Input Signature Registers (MISRs) as random pattern generators is investigated. This additional function helps to reduce hardware overhead and testing time, when BIST (Built-In Sel...
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In this article, the use of Multiple Input Signature Registers (MISRs) as random pattern generators is investigated. This additional function helps to reduce hardware overhead and testing time, when BIST (Built-In Self-Test) structures are integrated on the chip, because the MISR can at the same time generate test patterns and collect test responses. A formula is presented, which determines the number of clock cycles needed to generate a given number of random patterns. Finally we suggest a method for how the number of test patterns can be reduced when the MISR acts as test pattern generator and compressor in a feedback loop.
A new 3-D gate capacitor model is developed to accurately calculate the parasitic capacitances of nanoscale CMOS devices. The dependences on gate length and width, gate electrode and dielectric thicknesses, gate-to-co...
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In this paper, a new radiation hardened flip-flop design technique is proposed. The structure provides an possibility that the D-type flip-flop can be configured as an Single Event Upset (SEU) hardened or non-hardened...
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A high efficiency power management system for solar energy harvesting applications is proposed. The power management system receives power from photovoltaic (PV) cell and generate different voltage levels, they are 1V...
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The diode operated in forward-biased condition has been widely used as an effective on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device at GHz RF and high-speed I/O pads in CMOS integrated circuits (ICs) due to th...
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In this paper a methodology for verifying RISC cores is presented. This methodology is based on a hierarchical model of interpreters. This model allows us to define formal specifications at each level of abstraction a...
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We outline a general methodology for the formal verification of instruction pipelines in RISC cores. The different kinds of conflicts, i. e. resource, data and control conflicts, that can occur due to the simultaneous...
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In this paper a new test schedule problem is described and an algorithm for its solution is presented. Hardware overhead and test application time is saved by executing tests in parallel, when BIST (built-in-self-test...
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In this paper a new test schedule problem is described and an algorithm for its solution is presented. Hardware overhead and test application time is saved by executing tests in parallel, when BIST (built-in-self-test) structures are integrated on the chip. The authors achieve a reduction in the bit width of the control signals and the global area of the controller by merging the test control graph and the control graph for the data path into one control graph. This control graph can be globally optimized by the controller synthesis system CASTOR.< >
In this work, the power-rail ESD clamp circuit fabricated in 130 nm CMOS process is investigated. In order to improve the ESD protection ability, the power-rail ESD clamp circuit with gate-substrate-triggered is propo...
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In this work, the power-rail ESD clamp circuit fabricated in 130 nm CMOS process is investigated. In order to improve the ESD protection ability, the power-rail ESD clamp circuit with gate-substrate-triggered is proposed. By comparing with the other two techniques, gate-driven and substrate-triggered, it is shown that the secondary breakdown current of the power-rail ESD clamp circuit with gate-substrate-triggered is improved by 20%.
A general methodology, based on a hierarchical model of interpreters, is presented for formally verifying RISC cores. The abstraction levels used by a designer in the implementation of RISC cores, namely the instructi...
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A general methodology, based on a hierarchical model of interpreters, is presented for formally verifying RISC cores. The abstraction levels used by a designer in the implementation of RISC cores, namely the instruction set level, the pipeline stage level, the phase level and the hardware implementation, are mirrored by this hierarchical model. The use of this model allows us to successively prove the correctness between two neighboring levels of abstractions, so that the verification process is simplified. The parallelism in the execution of the instructions, resulting from the pipelined architecture of RISCs is handled by splitting the proof into simplified steps. The first step shows that, under certain assumptions, no conflicts can occur between simultaneously executed instructions, and the second step shows that each instruction is implemented correctly by the sequential execution of its pipeline steps.< >
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