ASSESSMENT OF POWER OPTIMIZATION IN VLSI SYSTEM USING LAUNCH-OFF-SHIFT AND LAUNCH-OFF-CAPTURE TESTING

Abstract

Author(s): ABUL HASSAN.S, DEIVAKANI.M

The aim of testing of VLSI circuits is high-quality screening of the circuits by targeting performancerelated faults. Though a compact check set with extremely effective patterns, every police work multiple delay faults is fascinating for lower check prices, such patterns increase shift activity throughout launch and capture operations. Sensible quality and value patterns could therefore find you violating peak-power constraints, leading to yield loss, whereas pattern with low shift activity constraints could cause loss in check quality and/or pattern count inflation. During this paper, a projected style for testability (DfT) support is conferred for sanctioning the utilization of a group of patterns optimized for value and quality and additionally in an exceedingly low power manner. 3 totally different DfT mechanisms are mentioned one for launch-off shift, one for launch-off capture, and one for mixed at-speed testing. The projected DfT support permits a style partitioning approach, wherever any given set of patterns, generated in an exceedingly power-unaware manner, may be utilized to check the planning regions one at a time, reducing each launch and capture power in an exceedingly design-flow compatible manner. Thus the check pattern count and quality of the optimized check set may be preserved, whereas lowering the launch/capture power