Simulation Data Mining for Functional Test Pattern Justification

Author(s):  
Charles Wen ◽  
Li-c. Wang
Integration ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-180
Author(s):  
Inki Hong ◽  
Darko Kirovski ◽  
Kevin Kornegay ◽  
Miodrag Potkonjak

2012 ◽  
Vol 479-481 ◽  
pp. 2572-2576
Author(s):  
Li Ni Lee ◽  
Yee Fei Phuah

Stop Clock Design-for-Testability (DFT) and Scan Dump DFT are integrated and implemented to trap the digital logic inside combinational and sequential logics for fault isolation (FI) purpose. Both DFTs enable functional test result to be dumped out structurally during functional test at manufacturing. Validation is performed on RTL simulation using test pattern and it is shown that the real silicon data matched the simulation results. Hence a new FI method has been established on the fly, capable in manufacturing.


Author(s):  
Yanli Shao ◽  
Huawei Zhu ◽  
Rui Wang ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Yusheng Liu

Abstract Traditional design optimization is an iterative process of design, simulation, and redesign, which requires extensive calculations and analysis. The designer needs to adjust and evaluate the design parameters manually and continually based on the simulation results until a satisfactory design is obtained. However, the expensive computational costs and large resource consumption of complex products hinder the wide application of simulation in industry. It is not an easy task to search the optimal design solution intelligently and efficiently. Therefore, a simulation data-driven design approach which combines dynamic simulation data mining and design optimization is proposed to achieve this purpose in this study. The dynamic simulation data mining algorithm—on-line sequential extreme learning machine with adaptive weights (WadaptiveOS-ELM)—is adopted to train the dynamic prediction model to effectively evaluate the merits of new design solutions in the optimization process. Meanwhile, the prediction model is updated incrementally by combining new “good” data set to reduce the modeling cost and improve the prediction accuracy. Furthermore, the improved heuristic optimization algorithm—adaptive and weighted center particle swarm optimization (AWCPSO)—is introduced to guide the design change direction intelligently to improve the search efficiency. In this way, the optimal design solution can be searched automatically with less actual simulation iterations and higher optimization efficiency, and thus supporting the rapid product optimization effectively. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.


Author(s):  
Annette Kuhlmann ◽  
Ralf-Michael Vetter ◽  
Christoph Lübbing ◽  
Clemens-August Thole

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