Semiconductor technology continues advancing, while global on-chip interconnects do not scale with the same pace as transistors, which has become the major bottleneck for performance and integration of future giga-sca...Semiconductor technology continues advancing, while global on-chip interconnects do not scale with the same pace as transistors, which has become the major bottleneck for performance and integration of future giga-scale ICs. Thre dimensional （3D） integration has been proposed to sustain Moore＇s law by incorporating through-silicon vias （TSVs） to integrate different circuit modules in the vertical direction, which is believed to be one of the most promising techniques to tackle the interconnect scaling problem. Due to its unique characteristics, there are many research opportunities, and in this paper we focus on the test wrapper optimization for the individual circuit-partitioned embedded cores within 3D System-on- Chips （SoCs）. Firstly, we use existing 2D SoCs algorithms to minimize test time for individual embedded cores. In addition, vertical interconnects, i.e., TSVs that are used to construct the test wrapper should be taken into consideration as well. This is because TSVs typically employ bonding pads to tackle the misalignment problem, and they will occupy significant planar chip area, which may result in routing congestion. In this paper, we propose a series of heuristic algorithms to reduce the number of TSVs used in test wrapper chain construction without affecting test time negatively. It is composed of two steps, i.e., scan chain allocation and functional input/output insertion, both of which can reduce TSV count significantly. Through extensive experimental evaluations, it is shown that reduce the number of test TSVs dramatically, i.e., as much as 26% in comparison with the intuitive method. the test wrapper chain structure designed by our method can 60.5% reductions in comparison with the random method and展开更多
随着芯片集成度的提高,三维片上系统(three-dimensional System on Chip,3DSoC)是集成电路发展的必然趋势,其中可测性设计成为研究的重点.为了降低测试代价,提出一种符合工业实际的多频测试架构及适用于该架构的测试算法,并结合功耗对...随着芯片集成度的提高,三维片上系统(three-dimensional System on Chip,3DSoC)是集成电路发展的必然趋势,其中可测性设计成为研究的重点.为了降低测试代价,提出一种符合工业实际的多频测试架构及适用于该架构的测试算法,并结合功耗对测试架构进行了仿真实验.实验结果表明,与传统的SoC相比,在同样TAM测试数据位宽数限制下,多频架构的3DSoC测试时间更短,测试代价更小.展开更多
基金This work was supported in part by the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2011CB302503 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60806014, 61076037, 60906018, 61173006, 60921002, 60831160526.
文摘Semiconductor technology continues advancing, while global on-chip interconnects do not scale with the same pace as transistors, which has become the major bottleneck for performance and integration of future giga-scale ICs. Thre dimensional （3D） integration has been proposed to sustain Moore＇s law by incorporating through-silicon vias （TSVs） to integrate different circuit modules in the vertical direction, which is believed to be one of the most promising techniques to tackle the interconnect scaling problem. Due to its unique characteristics, there are many research opportunities, and in this paper we focus on the test wrapper optimization for the individual circuit-partitioned embedded cores within 3D System-on- Chips （SoCs）. Firstly, we use existing 2D SoCs algorithms to minimize test time for individual embedded cores. In addition, vertical interconnects, i.e., TSVs that are used to construct the test wrapper should be taken into consideration as well. This is because TSVs typically employ bonding pads to tackle the misalignment problem, and they will occupy significant planar chip area, which may result in routing congestion. In this paper, we propose a series of heuristic algorithms to reduce the number of TSVs used in test wrapper chain construction without affecting test time negatively. It is composed of two steps, i.e., scan chain allocation and functional input/output insertion, both of which can reduce TSV count significantly. Through extensive experimental evaluations, it is shown that reduce the number of test TSVs dramatically, i.e., as much as 26% in comparison with the intuitive method. the test wrapper chain structure designed by our method can 60.5% reductions in comparison with the random method and
文摘随着芯片集成度的提高,三维片上系统(three-dimensional System on Chip,3DSoC)是集成电路发展的必然趋势,其中可测性设计成为研究的重点.为了降低测试代价,提出一种符合工业实际的多频测试架构及适用于该架构的测试算法,并结合功耗对测试架构进行了仿真实验.实验结果表明,与传统的SoC相比,在同样TAM测试数据位宽数限制下,多频架构的3DSoC测试时间更短,测试代价更小.
