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Abort-on-Fail Based Test Scheduling

Erik Larsson
 
Julien Pouget
Zebo Peng Author homepage

Journal of Electronic Testing; Theory and Applications (JETTA), Volume 21, Number 6, December 2005, pp. 651-658

ABSTRACT
The long and increasing test application time for modular core-based system-on-chips is a major problem, and many approaches have been developed to deal with the problem. Different from previous approaches, where it is assumed that all tests will be performed until completion, we consider the cases where the test process is terminated as soon as a defect is detected. Such abort-on-fail testing is common practice in production test of chips. We define a model to compute the expected test time for a given test schedule in an abort-on-fail environment. We have implemented three scheduling techniques and the experimental results show a significant test time reduction (up to 90%) when making use of an efficient test scheduling technique that takes defect probabilities into account.


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[LPP05] Erik Larsson, Julien Pouget, Zebo Peng, "Abort-on-Fail Based Test Scheduling", Journal of Electronic Testing; Theory and Applications (JETTA), Volume 21, Number 6, December 2005, pp. 651-658
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