Course detail

The Principles of Testable Design Synthesis

FIT-PTDAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course provides the state-of-the-art coverage in the field of digital systems testing and testable design. It deals with such diagnostic problems which must be solved by a digital circuit designer.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

0

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Kotásek, CSc.

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Item has no knowledges.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Course curriculum

Syllabus of lectures:
  • The Principles of Digital System Synthesis, the Implementation of Testability Principles during the Synthesis.
  • The Testability of a Digital Circuit, Controlability and Observability Concepts, Testability Measures.
  • The Evolution of Digital Circuit Testing Methods – the Principles of Increasing Controlability/Observability Parameters of Internal Nodes.
  • Test Points Techniques. The Implementation of Scan Registers to Increase Controlability/Observability
  • Full Scan Methods: Serial Methods (LSSD, Scan Path, Scan Set), Parallel Methods (RAS, ARAS).
  • Partial Scan Methods. The Utilisation of Full and Partial Scan Methods in Synthesis.
  • PLA Testing, Testable PLA Synthesis.
  • Built-in Self Test.
  • Test Pattern Generator, Test Response Analyser.
  • BIST Architectures, Hierarchical Structure of BIST Architectures.
  • CSTP, BILBO.
  • Self-checking design.
  • Boundary Scan. Test of Connections.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Item has no goals.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

There are no checked study.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

  • M. Abramovici, M. A. Breuer, D. Friedman: Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design: Revised Printing, Computer Society Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7803-1062-4, 680 stran
  • A. L. Crouch: Design-for-Test for Digital IC's and Embedded Core Systems, Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-084827-1, 347 stran
  • P. Michel, U. Lauther, P. Duzzy: The Synthesis Approach to Digital System Design, The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, ISBN 0-7923-9199-3, 375 stran

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4 Doctoral

    branch DVI4 , any year of study, winter semester, elective