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Automated synthesis of large phase shifters for built-in self-test

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The paper introduces a new algorithm for the automated synthesis of phase shifters-circuits used to remove effects of structural dependencies featured by two-dimensional test generators in a time-efficient manner.
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The paper introduces a new algorithm for the automated synthesis of phase shifters-circuits used to remove effects of structural dependencies featured by two-dimensional test generators. The algorithms presented in the paper synthesize in a time-efficient manner very large and fast phase shifters for built in self-test environment, with guaranteed minimal phase shifts between scan chains, and very low delay and area of virtually one 2-way XOR gate per channel.

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Logic BIST for large industrial designs: real issues and case studies

TL;DR: The experimental results demonstrate that with automation of the proposed solutions, logic BIST can achieve test quality approaching that of ATPG with minimal area overhead and few changes to the design flow.
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Adapting scan architectures for low power operation

TL;DR: A method of adapting conventional scan architectures such that they operate in a low power mode during test so that they maintain the test times of the pre-adapted scan architectures.
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Reducing test data volume using LFSR reseeding with seed compression

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TL;DR: A new lossless test vector compression scheme is presented which combines linear feedback shift register (LFSR) reseeding and statistical coding in a powerful way to improve the encoding efficiency.
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Test pattern compression for an integrated circuit test environment

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for compressing test patterns to be applied to scan chains in a circuit under test is presented, which includes generating symbolic expressions associated with scan cells within the scan chains.
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Method and apparatus for selectively compacting test responses

TL;DR: In this article, a linear compactor with a selection circuitry for selectively passing test responses to the compactor is proposed, where a gating logic is controlled by a control register, a decoder, and flag registers.
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Built-in test for circuits with scan based on reseeding of multiple-polynomial linear feedback shift registers

TL;DR: A new scheme for built-in test that uses multiple-polynomial linear feedback shift registers (MP-LFSR's) and an implicit polynomial identification reduces the number of extra bits per seed to one bit is presented.
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Decompression of test data using variable-length seed LFSRs

TL;DR: A new and efficient scheme to decompress a set of deterministic test vectors for circuits with scan based on the reseeding of a Multiple Polynomial Linear Feedback Shift Register but uses variable-length seeds to improve the encoding efficiency of test vectors with a wide variation in their number of specified bits.
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