Incremental Testability Analysis for Partial Scan Selection and Design Transformations

Laurence Tianruo Yang, Zebo Peng

Abstract: This paper presents an efficient estimation method for incremental testability analysis, which is based partially on explicit testability re-calculation and partially on gradient techniques. The analysis results have been used successfully to guide design transformations and partial scan selection. Experimental results on a variety of benchmarks show that the quality of our incremental testability analysis is similar to those of the conventional explicit testability re-calculation methods and the technique can be used efficiently for improving the testability of a design during the high-level test synthesis and partial scan selection processes.