TY - GEN
T1 - A unified test and debug platform for SOC design
AU - Lee, Kuen-Jong
AU - Chang, Chin Yao
AU - Su, Alan
AU - Liang, Si Yuan
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - As the complexity of System-on-a-Chip (SOC) design keeps growing rapidly, efficient and economic testing and debugging for complex circuits at silicon stage has become extremely important. In this paper we present a unified platform that facilitates efficient on-chip testing and silicon debugging in a PC-based environment. Test techniques including scan and BIST, and debug functions including online tracing, hardware breakpoint insertion and cycle-based single-stepping, are supported in this platform. An automatic design tool is also developed to simplify the generation and application ofthe platform. With this platform users can easily carry out structural testing with the scan or BIST test mode, functional verification with the on-line tracing mode, and fault diagnosis with the single-step mode.
AB - As the complexity of System-on-a-Chip (SOC) design keeps growing rapidly, efficient and economic testing and debugging for complex circuits at silicon stage has become extremely important. In this paper we present a unified platform that facilitates efficient on-chip testing and silicon debugging in a PC-based environment. Test techniques including scan and BIST, and debug functions including online tracing, hardware breakpoint insertion and cycle-based single-stepping, are supported in this platform. An automatic design tool is also developed to simplify the generation and application ofthe platform. With this platform users can easily carry out structural testing with the scan or BIST test mode, functional verification with the on-line tracing mode, and fault diagnosis with the single-step mode.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASICON.2009.5351351
DO - 10.1109/ASICON.2009.5351351
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949381019
SN - 9781424438686
T3 - ASICON 2009 - Proceedings 2009 8th IEEE International Conference on ASIC
SP - 577
EP - 580
BT - ASICON 2009 - Proceedings, 2009 8th IEEE International Conference on ASIC
T2 - 2009 8th IEEE International Conference on ASIC, ASICON 2009
Y2 - 20 October 2009 through 23 October 2009
ER -