The evolution of the embedded cores-based design paradigm in recent times has created numerous challenging problems for the test design community. To develop suitable test environment and appropriate test methodologie...
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(纸本)0889865515
The evolution of the embedded cores-based design paradigm in recent times has created numerous challenging problems for the test design community. To develop suitable test environment and appropriate test methodologies for digital cores-based system-on-chip (SOC) is a fascinating area of research today. This paper attempts to develop viable solution options to these problems based on cores constructed from ISCAS 85 combinational and ISCAS 89 sequential benchmark circuits. The wrapper that separates the core under test from other cores is assumed to be IEEE P1500-compliant. The cores and test access mechanism (TAM) are described in the paper using Verilog HDL, while TAM is implemented as a plain signal transport medium, being shared by all the cores in the SOC. The fault injection is done by a simulator that also generates the tests for the core. The fault simulation process is carried out after successful compilation of the cores, the individual core selection being done by the program running in the background.
A fixing-shifting encoding (FSE) method is proposed to reduce test cost of IP cores. The FSE method reduces test cost by supporting multiple-mode loading test data, i.e., parallel loading, left-direction, and right-di...
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(纸本)9780769527062;076952706X
A fixing-shifting encoding (FSE) method is proposed to reduce test cost of IP cores. The FSE method reduces test cost by supporting multiple-mode loading test data, i.e., parallel loading, left-direction, and right-direction serial loading for each test slice data. Furthermore, the FSE that utilizes only two test channels can support a large number of internal scan chains and achieve further reduction in test cost by combining with scan chain clustering method. As a non-intrusive and automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) independent solution, the approach is applicable to IP core testing because it requires neither redesign of the core under test (CUT) nor running any additional ATPG for the encoding procedure. In addition, the decoder has low hardware overhead, and its design is independent of the CUT. Experimental results for some large ISCAS 89 benchmarks and an industry ASIC design have proven the efficiency of the proposed approach
An effective NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) image analysis technique for detecting materials damage and defects existence has been developed successfully and applied to PVT images of composite structures. The developed...
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An effective NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) image analysis technique for detecting materials damage and defects existence has been developed successfully and applied to PVT images of composite structures. The developed technique is based on converting an image to its equivalent pixel values and then applying Search Through (ST) algorithm to the converted image such that the presence of damage in the composite structure and its extent can be easily verified. The technique has a novel approach to data analysis by employing intensity, RGB signal re-mix. and wavelength variation of a thermally generated IR-beam onto the specimen under test which can be sensed and displayed on a computer screen as an image. Specimen inspection and data analysis are carried out through pixel level re-ordering and shelving techniques within a transformed image file using a sequence grouping and regrouping software system, which is specifically developed for this work.
ICA (Independent Component Analysis) can separate unknown source signals from their mixture signals without information on the transfer functions, provided that the sources are statistically independent. When the numb...
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ICA (Independent Component Analysis) can separate unknown source signals from their mixture signals without information on the transfer functions, provided that the sources are statistically independent. When the number of the source signals is equal to that of the observed signals, the original sources can be recovered except for indeterminacy of scale and permutation. However, the number of the sources is unknown in a real environment. In this paper, we propose an estimation method for the number of the sources based on the joint distribution of the observed signals under two-sensor configuration. From several simulation results, it is found that the number of the sources is coincident to that of peaks in the histogram of the distribution
In this paper we present the parallelization process of the AES algorithm (Rijndael) based on loop-level parallelism along with the description of exploited parallelization tools. The data dependence analysis of the m...
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In this paper we present the parallelization process of the AES algorithm (Rijndael) based on loop-level parallelism along with the description of exploited parallelization tools. The data dependence analysis of the most time-consuming loops and appropriate loop transformations were applied in order to parallelize the sequential algorithm. The OpenMP standard was chosen for representing the parallelism of the AES algorithm. Speed-up measurements for a parallel program are presented. A strategy of the parallelization process of the standard modes of operation for the AES algorithm is also described.
Testing is important and gives the confident to the developer and user; but it is expensive and may consume at least 50% of the total costs involved in developing software. This cost is just for a normal application b...
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Testing is important and gives the confident to the developer and user; but it is expensive and may consume at least 50% of the total costs involved in developing software. This cost is just for a normal application but if it involves extreme and critical software, the number might increases. As we know, designing test suite for testing is a tedious and meticulous work. We need to have a deep understanding of the program before we could design a good test suite and even an expert tends to miss some test cases. Manual testing for large-scale program is very expensive and frustrating for humans. The same scenario applies in visual programming language (VPL). Visual programming (VP) is a much complex program than conventional one. Testing VP program give users the confidence on what they visualize is correctly transformed according to their perception. Most studies in designing test suites are using requirement specification, complex technique (i.e. Z) and third-party tools that require novices and non-expert user to supply information that is not familiar to them. It is certain that the information they supplied is more or less inaccurate and thus affects the test suite produced. Furthermore, there are no standard structures in exchanging the data about a program. The objective of this paper is to propose an XML-based test case language called test case markup language (TCML).
H.264 is the new multimedia compression standard developed by VCEG and MPEG. In order to maximize the compression performance, H.264 adopts RDO mode decision techniques at the cost of very remarkable computational com...
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A new concurrency control protocol for parallel Btree structures, MARK-OPT, is proposed. MARK-OPT marks the lowest structure-modification-operation (SMO) occurrence point during optimistic latch coupling operations, t...
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Evolutionary programming (EP) is one of the main classes of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Improving existing EAs is necessary in order to achieve better results and overcome their costly computational complexity. In ...
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Evolutionary programming (EP) is one of the main classes of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Improving existing EAs is necessary in order to achieve better results and overcome their costly computational complexity. In this paper, we present a new version of EP called Directed Evolutionary programming (DEP) in which more directing strategies with learned termination criteria are invoked to overcome some drawbacks of EP. In DEP, the mutated children are given the chance to improve themselves with the guidance of their parents. The search process in DEP is supported by diversification and intensification schemes in order to keep the diversity, achieve faster convergence and equip the search with an automatic termination criteria. The computational experiments show that DEP is efficient and cheaper than some well-known versions of EP.
As data integration over the Web has become an increasing demand, there is a growing desire to use XML as a standard format for data exchange. For sharing their grammars efficiently, most of the XML documents in use a...
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